Definite  Medication 


Containing  Therapeutic  Facts  Gleaned 
from  Forty  Years  Practice 


BY 


ELI  G.  JONES,  M.  D. 


Member  New  Jersey  State  Eclectic  Medical  Society,  Council  American  Civic  Alliance 
Author.  Manual  of  Health.  Rational  Treatment  of  Cancer.  Etc.,  Etc. 


It  is  not  what  we  learn  today,  but  what  we  remember 
tomorrow  that  adds  to  our  stock  of  knowledge. 


PUBLISHED  BY 

THE  THERAPEUTIC  PUBLISHING  COMPANY,  INC. 
BOSTON,  MASS. 

1911 


COPYRIGHT  1911 

BY 
THERAPEUTIC  PUBLISHING  COMPANY,  INC. 


INTERNATIONAL  COPYRIGHT  1911 

BY 
THERAPEUTIC  PUBLISHING  COMPANY,  INC. 


Dedication 

To  Professor  John  Uri  Lloyd,  Ph.  M.,  the  Author, 
the  Teacher,  the  Traveler,  the  Pharmacist,  as  a  slight 
testimonial  of  my  profound  respect  for  the  man  who 
has  done  so  much  for  the  cause  of  "  DEFINITE 
MEDICATION  "  by  giving  to  the  Profession  reme- 
dies which  are  so  reliable,  so  convenient  for  dispensing 
and  so  definite  in  their  action. 

May  his  reward,  hereafter,  be  "  Well  done  good  and 
faithful  servant,  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 


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Table  of  Contents 


HAPTER  PAGE 

PREFACE       -  7 

INTRODUCTORY  11 

I.     Practical  Diagnosis    -         -                  -        -         -  15 

II.     Special  Remedies  for  the  Brain  and  Spine    -  21 

III.  Special  Remedies  for  the  Organs  of  Respira- 

tion        __-  45 

IV.  Special  Remedies  for  the  Heart  73 
V.     Special   Remedies    for   the   Stomach    and    In- 
testinal Canal 91 

VI.     Special  Remedies  for  the  Liver,  Spleen,  Gall 

Bladder  and  Malaria        -----  113 

VII.     Special    Remedies    for   the    Bladder,    Kidneys 

and  Prostate  Gland 121 

VIII.     Special    Remedies    for    the    Male    Organs    of 

Generation       -------  135 

IX.     Special  Remedies  for  the  Eye  and  Ear  147 

X.     Special   Remedies   for   the    Hands,   Arms   and 

Legs     --------  161 

XI.     Special  Remedies  for  the  Feet          -  169 

XII.     Special  Remedies  for  the  Nervous  System    -  175 

XIII.  Special  Remedies  for  the  Skin                    -         -  191 

XIV.  Special  Remedies  for  the  Blood    •  211 
XV.     Special  Remedies  for  Fevers     -  231 

XVI.     Special  Remedies  for  Headache  245 

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CHAPTER  PACK 

XVII.     Special  Remedies  for  Diarrhea,  Vomiting  and 

Impotence    -------  253 

XVIII.     Special  Remedies  for  Dipsomania      -        -        -  261 
XIX.     Special  Remedies  for  the  Pregnant  Woman  265 
XX.     Special   Remedies   for  the   Non-Surgical   Dis- 
eases of  Women  277 
XXI.     Special  Remedies  for  the  Menopause        -         -  289 


Preface 


THE  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book, 
especially    the   tinctures,    are    Lloyd's    Specific 
Medicines.     Many  years'  experience  has  proved 
them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and  convenient  for  dis- 
pensing.    Prof.  John  Uri  Lloyd,  with  his  definite  rem- 
edies, has  done  more  to  make  converts  for  the  Eclectic 
School  of  Medicine  than  any  man  in  it. 

Outside  of  the  eclectic  physicians  who  use  specific 
medicines,  there  are  twenty  thousand  physicians  of  the 
regular  school  that  depend  upon  these  remedies  to 
heal  the  sick. 

I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty 
years  of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know 
them  to  be  perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures 
and  triturates  are  now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet 
representing  a  grain  of  the  drug.  This  makes  the 
remedies  very  convenient  for  dispensing  and  accept- 
able to  the  patient. 

In  testing  remedies  I  do  it  in  my  own  way  and  form 
rny  own  opinion  of  what  a  remedy  will  accomplish, 
and  when  and  how  it  should  be  given.  As  an  example 
of  how  I  test  remedies,  I  used  one  hundred  pint  bottles 
of  tincture  echinacea  on  different  cases  of  cancer  be- 
fore I  became  satisfied  in  my  mind  that  echinacea  will 
not  check  the  growth  of  cancer.  In  all  my  writings  I 
have  been  very  careful  about  the  statements  that  I 
made  concerning  a  remedy,  unless  it  had  been  tested 
by  myself,  not  upon  rats,  mice,  and  rabbits,  but  at  the 
bedside  of  the  sick. 

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8  Preface 

To  understand  the  real  remedial  action  of  drugs  we 
must  know  what  their  action  is  upon  the  human  body 
in  health.  I  have  tested  aconite,  belladonna,  nux 
vomica,  gelsemium,  and  other  remedies  upon  my  own 
person  and  noted  their  effect  in  health.  Then  and  not 
till  then  did  I  fully  understand  what  the  indications 
would  be  in  diseased  conditions.  With  all  due  respect 
for  those  who  have  gone  before  me,  I  do  not  take  any 
person's  "  say  so  "  about  a  remedy.  I  must  test  it  my- 
self and  then  I  know  by  my  own  experience  what  the 
remedy  will  really  accomplish.  In  this  way  I  have 
built  up  a  materia  medica  of  tried  remedies,  and  when 
I  tell  a  brother  physician  that  a  remedy  will  do  a  cer- 
tain thing  he  has  learned  to  depend  upon  what  I  say. 
This  is  the  age  of  medical  nihilism,  and  the  regular 
school  is  trying  to  belittle  the  study  of  therapeutics. 
There  never  was  a  period  in  the  history  of  medicine 
when  the  study  of  definite  medication  was  needed  so 
much  as  at  the  present  time.  It  is  a  crisis  in  our  pro- 
fession, with  the  drugless  healers  crowding  hard  upon 
the  heels  of  the  physician.  It  is  self-evident  that  as 
physicians  we  have  got  to  do  more  for  the  sick  the 
next  ten  years  than  ever  before  or  see  the  drugless 
healers  grow  and  fatten  on  our  failures. 

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  the  average  mortality  in 
this  country  from  disease,  without  medical  interfer- 
ence, does  not  exceed  seven  per  cent.  It  follows  from 
this  that  if  the  medical  doctors  are  to  be  of  any  use  to 
the  public,  the  average  mortality  under  their  treatment 
must  not  go  above  seven  per  cent.  The  average  mor- 
tality from  all  diseases,  under  the  eclectic  treatmtnt, 
will  not  be  over  one  per  cent.  In  every  epidemic  that 
has  swept  over  this  country  from  the  cholera  in  1832 


Preface  9 

down  to  the  present  time,  including  those  of  pneu- 
monia, typhoid  fever,  typhus  fever,  diphtheria,  cerebro- 
spinal  fever,  scarlet  fever,  measles,  etc.,  the  eclectic 
physicians  have  been  on  the  firing  line ;  they  have  met 
the  disease  and  conquered  it.  The  people  have 
learned  to  depend  upon  the  physicians  of  that  school 
when  death  hovers  over  their  dwelling. 

In  eclectic  colleges  students  are  taught  to  believe  in 
their  remedies.  They  are  taught  the  definite  action  of 
remedies.  They  are  taught  that  nearly  every  disease 
can  be  cured  and  how  to  cure  them.  A  student  goes 
out  from  his  eclectic  alma  mater  with  a  fixed  belief  in 
his  remedies,  which  he  carries  with  him  into  the  sick- 
room. 

The  eclectic  school  of  medicine  was  the  pioneer 
in  this  country  in  the  treatment  of  chronic  diseases 
and  their  success  is  too  well  known  for  present  com- 
ment. I  want  the  best  there  is  in  medicine  for  my 
patients,  therefore  I  choose  the  best  wherever  I  can 
find  it.  I  will  not  give  a  remedy  or  do  anything  which 
will  weaken  the  vital  force.  I  give  remedies  in  doses 
just  sufficient  to  obtain  their  remedial  action  and 
nothing  else.  I  am  ready  to  "  prove  all  things,  to  hold 
fast  to  that  which  is  good."  I  am  ready  to  "  seize  on 
truth  wherever  found,  on  Christian  or  on  heathen 
ground."  Therefore  I  am  an  eclectic ;  as  the  little  girl 
said  about  the  candy,  "  It  suits  me  and  I  like  it."  I 
am  an  eclectic  because  I  could  not  conscientiously  be 
anything  else.  The  eclectic  physicians  have  never 
asked  for  any  medical  laws  to  protect  them.  They 
are  not  afraid  of  competition  with  their  brother  phy- 
sicians. Medical  laws  are  a  creature  of  the  regular 
school.  Any  law  making  it  a  crime  to  heal  the  sick 


10  Preface 

is  a  disgrace  to  any  state  or  country.  The  people  have 
never  asked  for  any  medical  law  to  protect  them.  It 
is  the  doctors  of  the  regular  school  who  want  protec- 
tion. They  have  had  laws  made  taking  away  the 
divine  right  of  the  people  to  choose  their  own  doctor 
when  they  are  sick.  As  a  result  of  these  disgraceful 
medical  laws  the  people  are  learning  how  to  cure  them- 
selves without  any  medicine  when  they  are  sick.  To- 
day there  are  17,600,000  people  in  our  country  that 
depend  upon  some  form  of  drugless  healing  when  they 
are  sick  and  this  number  is  rapidly  increasing. 

What  can  be  done  to  stem  the  tide  of  drugless  heal- 
ing in  this  country?  Simply  this,  we  profess  to  be 
able  to  heal  the  sick  and  we  have  got  to  prove  to  the 
public  that  we  are  able  to  do  it,  or  "  throw  up  the 
sponge."  If  the  eclectic  physicians  want  to  retain  the 
confidence  of  the  public  they  must  fight  shy  of  all  these 
"  unholy  fads "  that  come  from  the  regular  school, 
serums,  coal  tar  products,  deadly  narcotics,  that  kill 
more  than  they  cure,  anti-toxines  that  kill  and  cripple 
so  many  young  children,  useless  surgery — unsexing 
and  degrading  so  many  of  our  women,  vaccination  that 
does  not  protect  and  that  is  a  blot  upon  our  civiliza- 
tion and  a  disgrace  to  our  profession,  surgical  operation 
for  appendicitis,  the  greatest  fraud  of  the  century. 
Show  to  the  public  that  you  have  no  lot  or  part  in 
such  matters.  Then  and  not  till  then  can  you  expect 
to  hold  the  confidence  of  the  public. 

"  Oh,  medicine,  what  crimes  are  committed,  what 
maladies  are  engendered  in  thy  name." 

Burlington,  New  Jersey,  December,  1910. 


Introductory 


DURING  my  professional  life  I  have  made  it  a 
rule  to  try  and  learn  at  least  one  therapeutic 
fact  each  day. 

This  book  contains  facts  that  have  been  gleaned  from 
forty  years  practice.  No  attempt  has  been  made  to 
adopt  any  particular  literary  style.  The  language  is 
plain  and  practical,  just  as  I  talk  to  my  classes  of  Phy- 
sicians in  my  Post  Graduate  Course  of  Instruction  in 
my  office.  The  busy  doctor  of  to-day  has  no  time  for 
guess  work  or  theorizing.  He  simply  wants  to  know 
what  remedy  will  cure  his  patient.  Every  physician, 
when  he  prescribes  for  a  sick  person,  should  be  able 
to  give  an  intelligent  reason  why  he  prescribes  a  rem- 
edy and  what  he  expects  it  to  do. 

In  every  case  where  it  is  possible  to  do  so,  I  have 
given  a  clean  cut  indication  for  each  remedy.  These 
remedies  have  stood  the  test  of  many  years  practice 
and  I  have  learned  to  rely  upon  them  as  old  friends 
tried  and  true.  The  older  I  grow  the  more  faith  I 
have  in  my  remedies ;  if  I  did  not  absolutely  believe  in 
the  remedial  power  of  my  remedies  to  heal  the  sick, 
my  conscience  would  not  allow  me  to  practice  medi- 
cine. A  doctor  who  has  no  faith  in  medicine  to  heal 
the  sick,  has  no  business  in  the  medical  profession.  If 
he  holds  himself  out  to  the  public  as  a  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine he  is  simply  obtaining  money  under  false  pre- 
tences. He  is  trifling  with  human  life;  the  most 
precious  thing  on  earth. 

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12  Introductory 

In  this  age  of  the  world's  progress  no  doctor  can 
afford  to  plead  ignorance  of  the  most  common  reme- 
dies of  any  School  of  Medicine.  His  business  is  to 
heal  the  sick,  and  it  is  his  duty  to  use  every  available 
means  within  his  power  to  accomplish  that  result. 
Any  physician  who  has  a  working  knowledge  of  the 
materia  medica  of  the  various  Schools  of  Medicine  has 
resources  to  depend  upon  which  doctors  not  thus  in- 
formed cannot  comprehend.  Such  men  are  broad- 
minded,  liberal  men  seeking  truth  no  matter  where  the 
quest  may  lead  them.  In  our  grand  and  noble  pro- 
fession we  have  no  place  for  a  narrow-minded  man,  a 
bigoted  man.  A  physician  who  cannot  see  anything 
good  outside  of  his  own  particular  school  of  medicine 
is  a  small-minded  man  and  will  find  his  level  as  such 
men  always  do. 

When  death  hovers  over  our  patient  and  life  seems 
trembling  in  the  balance  can  we  honestly  say  that  we 
have  done  all  that  can  possibly  be  done  for  the  case? 
Is  there  not  some  physician,  some  remedy  somewhere 
that  would  cure  that  case?  Shall  we  let  any  man  or 
body  of  men,  any  Code  of  Ethics  bar  us  from  employ- 
ing any  physician,  any  remedy  that  will  help  us  to  cure 
our  patient?  Is  human  life  to  be  weighed  in  the  bal- 
ance against  any  man-made  laws,  whether  it  be  the  so- 
called  "Code  of  Ethics,"  or  any  medical  law?  The 
true  physician  should  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  "  Him 
who  went  about  doing  good,"  of  Him  who  was  every- 
body's friend. 

When  called  in  consultation  with  my  brother  phy- 
sician I  never  ask  about  his  medical  politics.  Really 
I  do  not  think  it  is  any  of  my  business.  I  meet  him  as 
a  physician.  I  treat  him  as  one.  I  recognize  him  as  a 


Introductory  13 

physician  and  above  all  I  treat  him  as  one  gentleman 
should  treat  another. 

Oh,  if  we  could  only  forget  our  pathies,  our  preju- 
dices and  remember  only  that  we  are  physicians  here 
to  heal  the  sick,  what  a  grand  world  this  would  be  to 
live  in ;  how  much  more  real  good  the  medical  pro- 
fession could  accomplish.  This  quarreling  of  the  doc- 
tors among  themselves  is,  and  ever  will  be  a  source  of 
ridicule  for  the  public,  and  a  handicap  to  any  progress 
in  medicine.  Get  out  of  the  rut,  live  above  all  such 
jealousy  and  bickering,  be  a  physician  and  above  all  be 
a  gentleman.  A  gentleman  will  never  hurt  another's 
feelings  if  he  knows  it.  He  is  gentle  and  kind,  that  is 
the  true  definition  of  a  gentleman.  To  call  a  brother 
physician  a  Quack  or  irregular  don't  hurt  him  any  but 
it  degrades  the  man  who  uses  such  terms  which  are 
below  the  dignity  of  a  gentleman.  The  proudest  title 
which  could  be  placed  over  my  grave  when  God  calls 
me  home  is  simply  this :  "  He  was  a  physician."  It 
is  enough,  I  ask  nothing  more.  To  be  a  good  phy- 
sician is  a  greater  honor  than  to  be  President  of  the 
United  States,  and  be  the  football  of  politicians. 

The  object  of  this  book  is  to  teach  physicians  defi- 
nite medication ;  that  remedies  do  have  a  definite 
remedial  action  upon  certain  abnormal  conditions.  It 
is  my  hope  and  earnest  prayer  that  this  book  may  help 
the  doctor  to  cure  his  patients ;  if  not  then  it  will  have 
failed  in  its  mission. 

Many  years  in  a  large  general  practice  and  many 
more  in  an  extensive  office  business  in  the  treatment 
of  chronic  diseases,  where  I  have  treated  patients  from 
every  State  in  the  Union,  has  given  me  more  clinical 
experience  than  falls  to  the  average  physician.  The 


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results  of  my  experience  with  the  sick  I  have  tried  to 
embody  in  this  book,  showing  the  reader  what  has 
been  accomplished  with  these  remedies. 

During  the  year  I  receive  letters  from  doctors  in 
every  State  of  the  Union,  Canada  and  Mexico  asking 
my  advice  about  difficult  cases.  In  addition  to  this 
my  sixteen  years'  experience  in  "  Post  Graduate " 
teaching  of  physicians  in  my  office  and  a  consultation 
practice  has  taught  me  the  needs  of  the  average  phy- 
sician. A  doctor  who  is  willing  to  be  taught  and  is 
ambitious  to  "  do  things  "  in  his  profession  will  derive 
benefit  from  the  succeeding  pages.  My  very  soul  goes 
out  to  such  a  man  and  I  am  always  ready  to  help  him 
in  any  way  that  I  can.  Such  men  I  love ;  they  are  the 
bulwarks  of  our  profession  against  which  the  storms 
of  medical  nihilism  and  drugless  healing  falls  power- 
less and  impotent.  They  know  the  value  of  their  rem- 
edies; they  believe  in  them.  In  many  a  hard  fought 
battle  they  have  come  out  victorious,  and  they  will  go 
on  "  conquering  and  to  conquer." 

"  A  wise  physician  skilled  our  wounds  to  heal, 
Is  more  than  armies  to  the  public  weal." 


CHAPTER  I 

PRACTICAL  DIAGNOSIS 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication 


CHAPTER  I 

PRACTICAL  DIAGNOSIS 

IN  the  "  moving  pictures  "  we  see  a  practical  illus- 
tration of  how  the  modern  physician  examines  a 
patient  and  forms  a  "  snap  shot "  diagnosis.  He 
walks  into  the  room,  lays  down  his  hat  and  medicine 
bag,  grasps  the  wrist  of  the  patient,  pulls  out  his 
watch,  appears  to  count  the  pulse,  rolls  his  eyes  up  in 
his  head,  which  he  shakes,  and  with  an  owlish  look  of 
great  wisdom  writes  out  a  prescription,  reaches  out  his 
hand — "  two  dollars,  please  " — grabs  his  hat  and  trunk 
and  away  he  goes.  You  must  bear  in  mind  that  it  has 
taken  him  four  years  at  a  medical  college  to  learn  how 
to  do  all  this  properly  and  ethically.  What  does  he 
know  about  the  patient's  condition?  Practically  noth- 
ing. 

An  old  gentleman  had  a  sick  child  and  called  a  doc- 
tor, who  examined  the  child  about  as  described  above 
and  then  began  to  prepare  the  medicine.  The  father 
asked,  "What  ailed  the  child?"  The  doctor  replied, 
"  Oh,  it's  a  little  cold  and  some  fever."  The  old  gen- 
tleman said,  "  Doctor,  I  will  pay  you  for  the  visit  but 
you  need  not  leave  any  medicine."  The  second  doctor 
came  and  examined  the  child  in  about  the  same  manner 
and  his  diagnosis  was  as  indefinite  as  the  other.  He 

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18  Definite  Medication 

was  not  allowed  to  leave  any  medicine  for  the  child. 
The  third  doctor  came ;  he  examined  the  child  and  then 
began  to  prepare  the  medicine.  The  father  said, 
"What  ails  the  child,  doctor?"  "Why  it's  measles, 
any  fool  ought  to  know  that,"  was  the  doctor's 
answer.  "All  right,  doctor,  you  may  prescribe  for  the 
child."  The  old  gentleman  was  sensible.  No  doctor 
should  be  allowed  to  give  a  dose  of  medicine  unless  he 
can  give  an  intelligent  reason  why  he  gives  it,  what  he 
gives  it  for,  and  what  he  expects  it  to  do. 

We  send  our  boys  to  college  four  years  so  they  can 
learn  how  to  play  football;  we  send  them  to  medical 
college  four  years  more  to  learn  how  to  practise  vivi- 
section on  the  human  body.  They  are  then  turned 
adrift  upon  a  confiding  public  loaded  down  with  tech- 
nical knowledge  and  cannot  diagnose  a  simple  case  of 
measles. 

I  always  impress  the  idea  upon  my  students  that  the 
very  first  thing  that  a  doctor  must  learn  is  to  know 
how  to  read  the  pulse.  Not  one  doctor  in  a  thousand 
can  do  it.  No  man  can  do  two  things  at  a  time ;  you 
cannot  be  counting  the  pulse  and  reading  it  at  the 
same  time.  Keep  your  watch  in  your  pocket.  Just 
imagine  what  you  could  tell  from  the  pulse  if  you  had 
to  depend  upon  it  to  diagnose  the  case  as  they  do  in 
one  country  across  the  great  ocean.  How  does  it  feel 
to  you?  What  impression  do  you  get  from  it?  Is 
there  a  hardness,  a  tension  to  it?  if  so  then  there  is 
pain  or  congestion  somewhere  in  the  body,  constric- 
tion of  the  capillaries,  a  focus  of  inflammation.  If  it 
feels  weak,  has  a  discouraged  feeling,  it  means  en- 
feebled nerve  power  and  weakened  vitality.  Again 
we  may  have  what  I  call  the  "  sledge  hammer  "  pulse. 


Definite  Medication  19 

The  heart  is  driving  the  blood  through  the  blood  ves- 
sels with  all  its  force.  The  blood  is  being  driven  to 
the  brain  or  lungs  in  an  unnatural  quantity.  Then  we 
have  the  intermittent  pulse  which  shows  functional 
disease.  Bear  in  mind  that  behind  the  heart  is  the 
nerve  power.  It  is  the  "  man  behind  the  gun."  As 
that  gets  weak  and  enfeebled  it  will  affect  the  heart 
and  circulation.  At  times  the  pulse  may  seem  quick 
yet  there  is  an  impression  of  weakness  to  it,  of  a  ma- 
chine which  is  being  driven  beyond  its  power.  It 
gives  a  jarring  feeling  to  the  pulse.  When  the  nerve 
power  and  circulation  are  about  normal  the  pulse  feels 
full,  strong  and  regular.  The  blood  runs  clear  and 
there  is  no  tension  or  friction  anywhere. 

After  the  pulse  we  examine  the  tongue.  Many 
pages  have  been  written  describing  the  different  coat- 
ings on  the  tongue.  That  never  interested  me.  I 
want  to  know  how  the  tongue  itself  looks  underneath 
the  coating.  Red  papillae  on  the  tongue  showing 
through  the  coating  indicates  the  invasion  of  some  dis- 
ease. I  have  noticed  this  twenty-four  hours  before  an 
attack  of  pneumonia  or  measles.  In  health  the  tongue 
is  usually  moist ;  very  little  coating  and  few  fissures 
are  seen.  It  is  a  bright  red  color.  In  some  forms  of 
kidney  trouble  there  will  be  transverse  fissures  and 
often  perpendicular  ones  also.  Deep  red  fissures  far 
back  on  the  tongue  will  be  seen  in  long  standing  cases 
of  prolapsus  uteri.  A  dark  appearance  of  the  tongue, 
almost  purple,  shows  imperfect  oxidation  of  the  blood. 
The  appearance  of  the  tongue  will  tell  if  the  patient  is 
digesting  his  food  properly  or  not. 

The  eye  is  another  organ  that  we  must  study  care- 
fully. It  often  confirms  what  we  have  seen  in  the 


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pulse  and  tongue.  With  tension  of  the  pulse  we 
usually  get  contraction  of  the  pupils.  If  the  white  of 
the  eye  has  a  pearly  tint — an  unnatural  brightness 
about  it — there  is  a  drain  upon  the  system.  You  can 
see  it  exemplified  in  phthisis  pulmonalis,  advanced 
cancer,  Bright's  disease  and  ulceration  of  the  stomach. 
The  yellow  clouded  appearance  of  the  eye  denotes 
toxic  matter  in  the  blood.  A  greenish  tint  denotes 
decomposition  of  albumin.  From  my  experience  I  can 
always  tell  a  patient's  condition ;  whether  they  are  im- 
proving under  my  treatment  by  looking  at  their  eyes 
as  soon  as  they  come  into  the  office.  A  clear  eye  with 
bright  expression  tells  you  that  your  patient  feels  bet- 
ter and  is  better. 


CHAPTER  II 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  THE   BRAIN  AND  SPINE 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication  23 


CHAPTER  II 

SPECIAL    REMEDIES    FOR   THE    BRAIN    AND    SPINE 

SPINAL  IRRITATION.  This  is  the  least  under- 
stood of  any  disease  and  one  of  the  most  com- 
mon diseases  among  our  American  women. 
The  symptoms  are  heat  in  the  palms  of  the  hands, 
tingling  at  the  end  of  the  toes  at  night  in  bed,  a 
headache  that  begins  at  the  back  of  the  head  and 
extends  over  to  the  frontal  region.  If  we  examine 
the  spine  we  will  find  tender,  sensitive  spots.  There 
is  more  or  less  indigestion,  palpitation  of  the  heart 
and  the  patient  will  complain  that  her  back  hurts  her 
when  she  presses  back  against  anything. 

I  was  called  when  in  New  Hampshire  to  see  a  lady 
who  had  not  been  able  to  lie  down  in  bed  for  several 
weeks.  She  sat  in  a  rocking-chair  all  the  time,  and 
she  could  not  sit  still  but  kept  rocking.  She  had  all 
the  symptoms  mentioned  above.  Several  doctors  had 
treated  her.  Each  one  had  a  different  diagnosis  and 
treatment  but  none  of  them  understood  the  case.  I 
placed  her  upon  the  following  treatment :  Tincture 
Belladonna  two  drops  once  in  three  hours,  Sulph. 
Quinine  two  grains  before  breakfast.  Dialysed  iron 
gtts.  xx  before  dinner  and  supper.  I  also  had  the 
whole  length  of  the  spine  painted  with  tincture  iodine, 
a  strip  as  wide  as  my  two  fingers  night  and  morning, 
until  it  was  so  sore  she  could  not  bear  it  any  longer. 
In  a  week  she  could  lie  in  bed  and  sleep  like  other 
people.  She  finally  recovered  entirely. 


24  Definite  Medication 

Another  case  in  Vermont  afflicted  with  the  same 
spinal  complaint  had  been  confined  to  her  bed  for  some 
time.  She  had  been  under  the  treatment  of  the  best 
doctors  in  that  part  of  the  State  but  they  could  not 
help  her.  She  suffered  severely  with  headaches  as  well 
as  other  symptoms  of  spinal  irritation.  None  of  the 
doctors  seemed  to  understand  her  case  and  she  had 
become  practically  bed-ridden.  I  began  the  treatment 
of  this  case  with  the  same  remedies  as  in  the  first  case 
and  cured  her. 

When  I  came  to  New  Jersey  twenty-seven  years  ago. 
about  the  first  patient  I  had  to  treat  was  a  lady  with 
spinal  irritation,  who  lived  in  one  of  the  large  cities  of 
the  State.  The  doctors  had  given  her  up  as  incurable. 
I  treated  her  as  I  had  treated  the  other  cases  and  cured 
her  and  she  has  been  free  from  the  trouble  ever  since. 
There  are  many  cases  scattered  over  the  country  that 
I  have  cured  of  this  condition  and  I  trust  the  present 
generation  of  physicians  will  understand  this  disease 
and  have  better  success  with  it  than  the  past  genera- 
tion. 

Spinal  Meningitis.  When  there  is  throbbing  pain  in 
the  spine,  drowsiness,  but  cannot  sleep,  starts  at  every 
sound,  belladonna  is  the  remedy.  Tincture  bella- 
donna, gtts.  v ;  aqua,  ounces  iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoon- 
ful  once  an  hour.  If  the  pulse  is  full,  hard,  and  with 
tension  to  it,  veratrum  viride  is  the  remedy.  Tincture 
veratrum,  gtts.  x;  aqua,  ounces  iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  To  relieve  the  nerve  tension, 
pain  in  the  legs,  worse  on  motion,  great  thirst — drink- 
ing large  quantities  of  water,  bryonia  is  the  remedy. 
Tincture  bryonia  gtts.  v;  aqua,  ounces  iv.  Mix.  Sig. 
Teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours. 


Definite  Medication  25 

Myelitis.  In  this  disease  when  there  is  general  weak- 
ness about  the  hips  and  loins,  extending  down  the  legs, 
a  feeling  of  exhaustion,  pains  in  small  spots  that  come 
and  go — worse  by  thinking  of  them,  cold  feet,  oxalic 
acid,  sixth  decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Give  two  grains 
every  three  hours.  When  there  is  pain  in  the  back, 
comes  on  suddenly,  relieved  by  motion,  attended  by 
numbness,  artemesia  abrotanum,  third  decimal  dilution, 
is  the  remedy.  Put  twenty  drops  in  a  glass  of  water 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  When  there  is 
sudden  loss  of  power  in  the  extremities,  knee  jerk, 
rigidity  of  the  legs,  spastic  gait — often  tremulous, 
lathyrus  sativus  is  the  remedy.  Give  three  tablets  of 
the  third  decimal  trituration  night  and  morning. 

In  the  tremors  of  multiple  sclerosis  hydrobromate 
hyoscyamus,  third  decimal  trituration  is  indicated.  It 
should  be  given  in  one  grain  doses  every  hour. 

Strychnine,  in  any  form,  should  never  be  given  in  any 
spinal  irritation,  congestion  or  inflammation  because 
it  is  a  spinal  irritant.  The  spine  is  very  sensitive  to 
the  smallest  dose  of  strychnine  and  it  will  aggravate 
all  the  symptoms. 

Cerebro  Spinal  Meningitis.  My  first  recollection  of 
this  disease  was  in  the  early  part  of  the  Sixties  in 
Maine,  when  we  had  an  epidemic.  They  called  it 
"  Spotted  Fever  "  in  those  days.  The  regular  physi- 
cians treated  it  with  morphine  internally  and  ice  ap- 
plied to  the  spine.  The  result  of  such  treatment  was 
not  very  flattering  to  that  School  of  Medicine.  This 
is  one  of  the  epidemics  that  has  swept  over  this  coun- 
try at  different  times  and  it  has  always  found  the 
eclectic  physicians  on  the  firing  line.  They  have  met 
the  disease  and  conquered  it. 


26  Definite  Medication 

In  the  first  stage  with  fever,  headache,  etc.,  ferri 
phos.  is  a  safe  and  reliable  remedy  to  prescribe.  Put 
five  grains  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  in  a  glass  of 
hot  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  fifteen  min- 
utes for  an  hour;  then  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour. 
For  the  drawing  back  of  the  neck,  spasms  of  the  back, 
rush  of  blood  to  the  head,  natrium  sulph.,  third  decimal 
is  the  remedy.  Add  five  grains  to  a  cup  of  hot  water 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour  in  alternation 
with  the  ferri  phos.  If  the  patient  is  a  child,  in  most 
cases  the  above  treatment  will  cut  short  the  acute 
symptoms.  If  the  pulse  goes  down  and  the  child 
seems  weak  and  exhausted,  give  kali  phos.  sixth  deci- 
mal. Put  five  grains  in  a  cup  of  hot  water  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  once  in  fifteen  minutes;  it  will  bring  the 
pulse  up  and  the  general  condition  of  the  child  will  be 
improved.  I  have  been  able  to  control  the  spasms  in 
small  children,  with  the  following  prescription : 

^     Magnesia,  Phos. 

Kali  Phos.,  a.  a.  grs.  v. 
Hot  Water,  giv. 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  few  minutes  until  it 
controls  the  spasms. 

As  a  tonic  calcarea  phos.  third  decimal  may  be 
given.  Dose  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  It  has 
been  my  practice  to  apply  a  mustard  paste — equal 
parts  of  Indian  meal  and  mustard  mixed  with  warm 
water— the  whole  length  of  the  spine.  If  you  have 
libradol  (Lloyd's)  it  may  be  applied  to  the  spine  until 
there  is  slight  nausea.  This  is  an  excellent  local  ap- 
plication for  pain.  When  there  is  redness  of  the  face, 
eyes  swollen— have  a  dull  appearance,  pupils  dilated, 


Definite  Medication  27 

throbbing  carotids,  pulse  full  and  bounding,  belladonna 
is  the  remedy.  Tincture  belladonna  gtts.  v,  aqua 
§vi.  Mix  and  give  teaspoonful  every  hour.  After 
the  acute  symptoms  have  passed  we  often  see  alternate 
tonic  and  clonic  spasms  for  which  cimicifuga  is  indi- 
cated. For  the  neuralgia,  severe  pain  in  the  upper 
part  of  the  spine,  headache — feels  like  a  band  drawn 
tight  round  the  head,  worse  when  lying  down,  begins 
at  the  base  of  the  brain  and  goes  over  to  the  forehead 
— gelsemium  is  the  remedy.  I  combine  the  two  reme- 
dies as  follows  for  children : 

I£     Tr.  Gelsemium. 

Tr.  Cimicifuga  a.  a.  gtts.  xx. 
Aqua,  iv. 

Mix.  Sig.    Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

In  one  case  I  saw  the  spasms  were  very  severe,  feet 
and  head  almost  came  together  (opisthotonos)  small 
blotches  (petechia)  on  the  back,  severe  pain  in  the 
back  of  the  head  and  between  the  shoulders,  back  of 
the  head  felt  very  hot.  Here  veratrum  viride  was  the 
remedy.  I  prescribed  tincture  veratrum  gtts.  v,  aqua 
§ii  and  ordered  a  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  to  be 
given  every  hour.  Do  not  forget,  the  more  pro- 
nounced the  tendency  to  opisthotonos  the  stronger  the 
indication  for  veratrum  viride.  The  above  remedy 
conquered  the  spasms  and  the  child  got  well.  There 
is  a  septic  condition  underlying  this  disease  and  echi- 
nacea  is  the  remedy  to  meet  that  condition.  When 
there  is  a  chilliness  over  the  back,  alternate  flashes  of 
heat — over  the  whole  body,  headache  and  flushing  of 
the  face,  profound  prostration,  give  tincture  echinacea 
gtts.  x  once  in  two  hours.  The  patient  should  be 


28  Definite  Medication 

bathed  all  over  once  a  day  with  Epsom  salts  and  warm 
water  (one  ounce  of  the  salts  to  a  pint  of  water).  It 
neutralizes  the  toxines,  allays  the  irritation  of  the 
sensitive  nerves,  soothes  the  patient  and  thus  produces 
rest. 

Opiates  and  dye  house  stuff  must  not  be  given. 
They  arrest  secretion  and  weaken  the  vitality  of  your 
patient,  and  lower  the  power  of  the  system  to  resist 
the  disease.  Remember  not  only  in  this  disease  but  in 
all  others,  work  with  Nature,  never  against  her.  Mor- 
phine never  relieved  pain ;  it  only  stupefies  the  patient 
so  they  do  not  feel  the  pain.  In  its  place  give  tincture 
passaflora  in  five  drop  doses  every  half  hour.  It  will 
often  quiet  the  children  and  give  them  rest. 

In  one  case  where  I  was  called  the  family  physician 
had  treated  the  child  for  cerebro  spinal  meningitis  and 
it  had  recovered  with  paralysis  of  the  legs.  I  treated 
this  case  with  calcarea  phos.  third  decimal  and  kali 
phos.  third  decimal ;  giving  three  tablets  of  each  rem- 
edy in  alternation  every  three  hours.  This  treatment 
was  continued  until  the  little  patient  could  walk. 
Deafness  is  another  sequel  frequently  met  with  in  this 
disease.  Give  sulphur  sixth  decimal  and  silicea  sixth 
decimal  in  alternation  (three  tablets  of  each)  every 
three  hours.  From  my  own  experience  I  should  say 
that  this  disease  can  be  cured  in  the  very  large  pro- 
portion of  cases.  I  have  been  successful  in  about 
every  case  I  have  seen.  Watch  your  case  carefully; 
give  the  remedy  indicated.  Expect  the  best  results 
but  be  prepared  for  the  worst. 

Locomotor  Ataxia.  When  the  lower  extr emetics  ap- 
pear heavy,  can  scarcely  drag  them  along,  patient 
staggers  when  walking,  cannot  walk  except  when  the 


Definite  Medication  29 

eyes  are  open  and  in  the  daytime,  great  craving  for  in- 
digestible foods,  alumina  is  the  remedy.  Prescribe 
three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  every  three  hours.  In 
the  first  stage  of  this  disease  belladonna  is  the  remedy 
indicated  when  the  conjunctiva  is  congested,  pupils 
dilated,  with  ptosis,  diplopia  and  incontinence  of  urine. 
Give  belladonna  first  decimal  dilution  in  ten  drop  doses 
three  times  a  day.  When  there  is  paralysis  of  the  blad- 
der, loss  of  sexual  desire,  shooting  pains,  the  ataxic  gait 
— worse  when  closing  the  eyes,  cannot  walk  in  the  dark 
without  reeling,  legs  feel  as  if  made  of  wood,  argentum 
nitricum  sixth  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Give  in  doses 
of  three  tablets  every  three  hours.  For  the  general 
nervous  exhaustion  phosphide  of  zinc  is  the  remedy  to 
be  given  in  doses  of  one-tenth  grain  three  times  a  day. 
For  the  "  lightning  pains  "  give  tincture  canabis  indica 
gtts.  x,  aqua  ^iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in 
two  hours.  Constipation  is  an  obstinate  symptom  of 
this  disease,  see  article  on  constipation,  page  95,  for 
the  indicated  remedies.  For  the  incontinence  of  urine 
equisetum  first  decimal  dilution  is  the  remedy,  to  be 
given  in  five  drop  doses  every  three  hours.  For  the 
severe  gastric  distress  (gastralgia)  carbo  veg.,  third 
decimal  should  be  prescribed.  Give  your  patient  three 
tablets  every  three  hours.  There  are  perforating  ul- 
cers on  the  feet  and  soles  of  the  feet  that  are  best 
treated  by  silicea  sixth  decimal,  giving  three  tablets 
three  times  a  day.  The  sexual  excitement,  painful 
erections  in  the  morning,  calls  for  picric  acid  sixth 
decimal.  Prescribe  it  in  doses  of  three  tablets  every 
two  hours.  The  burning  of  the  soles  of  the  feet  may 
be  relieved  by  the  belladonna  as  given  above.  Secale 
conutum  is  one  of  your  best  anti-tabetic  remedies  and 


30  Definite  Medication 

has  made  cures  of  this  disease  in  the  first  decimal  dilu- 
tion, giving  five  drops  once  in  three  hours.  In  alter- 
nation with  this  remedy  you  should  also  give  tincture 
stramonium  first  decimal  dilution  for  the  head  symp- 
toms. Dose.  Five  drops  once  in  three  hours.  This 
is  one  of  the  diseases  where  electricity  may  be  used  as 
a  valuable  adjunct  if  the  doctor  understands  how  to 
use  it  intelligently  and  judiciously. 

Tetanus.  In  this  disease  where  the  lips  are  drawn 
back  showing  the  teeth,  jaws  locked  together,  our 
Homeopathic  friends  have  cured  some  cases  with  tinc- 
ture augustura,  giving  doses  of  five  drops  every  half 
hour ;  also  with  the  first  decimal  dilution  of  hypericum 
giving  ten  drops  once  in  two  hours.  It  is  the  remedy 
in  injuries  which  affect  the  spine. 

The  best  treatment  for  lock  jaw  is  first  a  vapor  bath  ; 
one  can  produce  free  perspiration  in  a  few  minutes 
with  two  lumps  of  fresh  lime,  half  the  size  of  a  man's 
fist;  wrap  each  piece  in  a  moist  cloth  and  this  again 
with  a  dry  cloth  doubled  several  times  and  fastened 
securely.  Place  one  each  side  of  the  patient's  body 
while  in  bed.  This  will  make  the  patient  perspire 
copiously  and  lasting  from  one  to  two  hours.  It  takes 
the  place  of  the  bath  cabinet  and  vapor  bath.  Cauter- 
ize the  wound  freely  with  caustic  potash,  then  apply  a 
poultice  of  equal  parts  of  slippery  elm,  lobelia  seed  and 
flaxseed  moistened  with  warm  watet-.  Change  the 
poultice  every  two  hours.  For  internal  use  there  is  a 
remedy  that  the  fathers  of  the  Eclectic  school  learned 
to  depend  upon.  The  prescription  is  as  follows : 
^  Oil  of  Capsicum. 

Oil  of  Lobelia,  a.  a.  3i. 

Alcohol,  95%  §ii. 


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Mix.  Sig.  Rub  the  jaws  and  throat  with  this  mix- 
ture. Then  give  one  teaspoonful  to  one  tablespoonful 
by  the  mouth.  Draw  the  cheek  aside  and  let  the  med- 
icine trickle  between  the  teeth.  If  you  cannot 
get  the  patient  to  swallow  add  one  ounce  of  the  mix- 
ture to  a  pint  of  warm  water  and  give  as  an  enema 
per  rectum.  Hold  a  folded  napkin  against  the  anus 
to  prevent  the  return  of  the  water.  Repeat  the  dose 
by  the  mouth  in  half  an  hour  if  needed,  or  per  rectum 
in  an  hour.  In  ninety-five  cases  out  of  a  hundred  it 
will  make  the  patient  open  his  mouth.  Then  the  fol- 
lowing may  be  given  at  intervals : 

1^     Tr.  Passaflora,  oi. 

Tr.  Gelsemium  gtts.  xx. 
Aqua,  £iv. 

Mix.  Sig.    Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Place  a  plug  of  tobacco  about  three  inches  long  in 
a  pan  of  boiling  water  until  it  is  soft;  then  apply  it 
over  the  pit  of  the  stomach.  It  will  usually  relax  the 
jaws  so  the  patient  can  open  his  mouth.  Cases  have 
also  been  cured  by  laying  the  patient  on  his  stomach 
on  a  table,  then  take  a  hot  flat  iron  and  pass  it  over 
the  whole  length  of  the  spine.  The  heat  applied  to  the 
spine  is  a  relaxant  and  will  frequently  overcome  the 
rigidity  of  the  jaws.  Powerful  narcotics,  serums  and 
various  poisons  have  been  used  in  this  condition  and 
failed.  The  above  treatment  is  the  best  that  has  ever 
been  used,  for  this  disease. 

In  tetanus  in  horses  passaflora — the  infusion  of  the 
plant  and  flowers  (fresh) — given  in  doses  of  a  cupful 
and  a  half  has  cured  cases  where  the  horse  has  been 
given  up  to  die. 


32  Definite  Medication 

In  the  above  treatment  of  tetanus  in  the  human 
body  the  idea  is  first  to  encourage  a  free  discharge 
from  the  wound;  second,  to  relax  nerve  tension  with 
the  lobelia,  until  the  patient  opens  his  mouth  and 
vomits  freely.  Then  we  may  be  assured  that  we  have 
the  disease  under  control. 

I  have  met  with  cases  of  idiopathic  tetanus,  caused 
by  eating  indigestible  food,  in  children,  where  I  gave 
tincture  gelsemium  gtts.  xx,  aqua  §vi.  Mix.  Sig. 
Teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  It  cured  them. 

Hydrophobia.  Several  times  in  my  lite  I  have  been 
called  to  visit  patients  who  had  been  bitten  by  dogs 
supposed  to  be  mad.  Many  dogs  said  to  have  hydro- 
phobia are  only  afflicted  with  the  distemper.  When  I 
am  called  to  a  case  of  this  kind,  I  just  cauterize  the 
wound  in  each  place  where  the  teeth  cut  in  the  flesh 
with  caustic  potash.  Then  to  be  sure,  and  to  take  no 
chance  of  hydrophobia  developing  I  have  the  patient 
take  a  "  Lime  Sweat "  as  mentioned  under  the  treat- 
ment of  tetanus.  This  opens  the  pores  of  the  skin  and 
will  help  to  remove  the  poison  of  rabies,  if  by  chance 
there  should  be  any  in  the  system.  I  also  prescribe 
ten  drops  of  tincture  echinacea  four  times  a  day  as  a 
prevention  to  hydrophobia. 

If  I  think  it  is  a  real  case  of  "  mad  dog  "  I  have  the 
patient  take  a  "  Lime  sweat "  once  a  week  for  a  month 
and  continue  the  echinacea  for  a  month  or  six  weeks. 
I  have  watched  such  cases  for  several  months  after 
they  were  bitten  by  the  dog  but  no  signs  of  hydro- 
phobia appeared.  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  echi- 
nacea and  the  "  lime  sweats,"  or  a  vapor  bath  are  the 
best  preventive  treatment  for  hydrophobia  that  we 
have.  When  called  to  a  real  case  of  hydrophobia  the 


Definite  Medication  33 

first  thing  is  to  get  the  patient  in  bed  and  give  them 
the  "  lime  sweat "  as  mentioned  under  tetanus.  An 
hour's  good  copious  perspiration  will  do  more  to  get 
the  poison  out  of  their  system  than  any  other  one 
thing.  Cauterize  and  poultice  the  wound  no  matter 
how  long  it  has  been  healed.  Get  up  a  free  discharge 
from  it  as  soon  as  possible.  If  the  patient  can  swallow 
give  him  the  following: 

I£     Tr.  Scutellarin. 

Cypripedin  a.  a.  grs.  xx. 

Lobelin,  grs.  v. 

Sulph.  Quinine,  grs.  xxx. 

Mix.  Divide  into  Chart.  No.  10.  Sig.  One  powder 
every  two  hours  until  all  are  taken. 

This  has  proven  sufficient  in  some  cases,  but  if  the 
case  is  well  advanced  before  you  see  it  you  have  the 
old  siege  gun  of  the  older  Eclectics.  The  Comp.  Tr. 
Lobelia  (Third  preparation)  of  the  American  Dys- 
pensatory.  If  the  patient  can  swallow  give  him  from 
one-half  to  a  teaspoonful  of  this  remedy  every  half 
hour.  In  the  worst  cases  the  patient  is  unable  to 
swallow  any  liquid.  Then  the  best  and  quickest 
method  is  to  put  an  ounce  of  this  preparation  in  a  little 
water  and  give  an  enema  per  rectum.  Repeat  in  an 
hour  if  necessary.  If  we  can  relax  the  patient  so  as 
to  control  the  spasms  we  have  mastered  the  disease. 
If  the  patient  vomits  freely  so  much  the  better.  If 
you  find  the  spasms  growing  less  severe  or  less  fre- 
quent, stick  to  your  treatment.  It  is  doing  good. 
The  older  Botanic  and  Eclectic  physicians  left  a  record 
of  cures  of  hydrophobia  with  these  remedies  and  "what 
man  has  done,  man  r.iay  do."  I  honestly  believe  this  is 


34  Definite  Medication 

the  best  treatment  that  we  have  for  this  disease. 
Every  doctor  in  general  practice  should  keep  the  above 
remedies  on  hand  and  know  how  to  use  them. 

Multiple  Sclerosis.  The  symptoms  of  multiple  sclero- 
sis are  pretty  well  covered  by  lathyrus.  It  should  be 
used  in  the  third  decimal  trituration,  giving  three  tab- 
lets three  times  a  day.  If  the  spinal  trouble  be  trau- 
matic hypericum  first  decimal  trituration  is  the  rem- 
edy. Give  three  tablets  every  three  hours. 

Concussion  of  the  Brain.  I  was  called  with  another 
physician  to  see  a  boy  about  twelve  years  of  age  who 
had  been  at  work  with  his  father  in  a  sawmill.  One 
of  the  planks  hit  the  saw,  flew  round  and  knocked  the 
boy  over.  He  was  picked  up  unconscious  and  carried 
into  the  house.  When  I  saw  him  he  lay  on  the  bed  in 
a  stupor;  he  vomited  once  all  he  had  eaten  the  last 
meal  (one  of  the  symptoms  of  concussion  of  the 
brain).  My  diagnosis  was  concussion  of  the  brain.  I 
advised  tincture  belladonna  as  the  remedy  indicated. 
The  prescription  was  as  follows: 

^     Tr.  Belladonna,  gtts.  v. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mix.  Sig.    Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

The  feet  were  kept  warm  and  cold  applications  were 
made  to  the  head.  On  making  my  second  visit 
twenty-four  hours  later  I  found  the  boy  rational  and 
quite  bright.  Later  in  the  case  the  doctor  in  attend- 
ance remarked  to  me  that  "  the  boy  Had  been  in  the 
habit  of  wetting  his  bed  every  night  but  since  we  be- 
gan to  treat  the  case  he  had  never  done  so,"  and  asked 
me  the  cause  of  it.  My  reply  was  that  "  belladonna 
was  one  of  our  best  remedies  for  incontinence  of 


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urine."  The  boy  recovered  and  I  saw  him  twelve 
years  after  a  strong  healthy  man. 

Cerebral  Congestion.  Aconite  is  the  remedy  in  this 
condition  where  there  is  a  dry  skin,  extreme  restless- 
ness, when  the  congestion  arises  from  cold  or  from 
violent  emotion.  The  prescription  may  read  Tr.  Aco- 
nite gtts.  v,  Aqua  §vi.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once 
an  hour. 

If  there  is  hardness  and  tension  to  the  pulse,  a  beat- 
ing and  throbbing  of  the  brain  and  carotids  veratrum 
viride  is  the  remedy.  Give  tincture  veratrum  gtts,  x, 
aqua  §vi.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

When  the  eyes  are  red  and  bloodshot,  head  hot, 
feet  cool,  face  red — almost  purple,  pressure  and  full- 
ness in  the  head,  with  terrible  delirium,  belladonna  is 
the  remedy.  The  more  pronounced  the  delirium,  the 
stronger  the  indication  for  this  remedy.  Prescribe  Tr. 
belladonna  gtts.  v,  Aqua  £vi.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful 
every  hour. 

Meningitis.  For  the  fever,  quick  pulse,  etc.,  which 
characterizes  this  disease  at  its  commencement  ferri 
phos.  third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Add  grs.  v  in  a 
cup  of  hot  water  and  give  teaspoonful  doses  every  half 
hour.  In  the  second  stage  or  effusion  kali  mur.,  third 
decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Add  grs.  v  to  a  cup  of  water 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  When  there 
is  a  tendency  to  effusion  and  dropsy,  eyes  wide  open 
and  staring,  insensible  to  light,  head  rolls  from  side  to 
side  on  the  pillow  or  he  beats  it  with  his  hand,  fore- 
head wrinkled,  urine  scanty,  and  there  is  the  "  cry  en- 
cephalique,"  helleborus  niger  is  the  remedy.  Prescribe 
Tr.  Hellebore  gtts.  v,  Aqua  §vi.  Mix.  Sig.  Tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  Kali  phos.  third  decimal  is  the 


36  Definite  Medication 

best  tonic  after  the  acute  symptoms  are  under  control. 
Put  five  grains  in  a  cup  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoon- 
ful  every  hour. 

Apoplexy.  When  the  pulse  is  hard  and  the  carotids 
beat  violently,  with  restlessness  and  fever,  aconite  is 
the  remedy.  Give  Tr.  aconite  gtts.  v,  Aqua  §iv. 
Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  hour.  If  called  during 
an  apoplectic  fit,  our  best  remedy  is  ferri  phos.  Add 
grains  x  of  the  third  decimal  to  a  cup  of  hot  water 
and  give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  It 
will  usually  restore  the  patient  to  consciousness  in  a 
short  time  and  will  also  control  the  hemorrhage.  To 
help  absorb  the  exudate  and  to  prevent  another 
"  stroke "  I  have  used  kali  mur.  the  third  decimal. 
Add  ten  grains  to  a  cup  of  water  and  give  in  teaspoon- 
ful doses  every  hour.  I  have  followed  this  treatment 
for  some  time  and  watched  the  cases  expecting  an- 
other "  stroke "  but  it  did  not  come.  Such  patients 
should  be  warned  against  over-eating,  clogging  the 
stomach,  allowing  the  bowels  to  become  constipated 
for  these  all  help  to  produce  another  attack.  It  is 
often  remarked :  "  Well,  she  has  had  one  stroke ;  she 
will  soon  have  the  second  and  then  the  third.  She 
will  die  in  one  of  them."  You  can  do  very  much  for 
these  cases  and  often  prevent  any  more  attacks.  Look 
out  for  the  warning  symptoms,  prickling  of  the  hands 
and  feet,  feel  as  if  they  were  going  to  sleep.  When 
you  hear  a  patient  complain  of  these  symptoms  give 
kali  phos.,  third  decimal,  three  tablets  once  in  two 
hours. 

I  believe  when  our  profession  understand  the  real 
value  of  kali  mur.  as  a  remedy  after  the  apoplectic 
seizure  that  many  precious  lives  may  be  saved.  These 


Definite  Medication  37 

victims  of  apoplexy  come  mostly  from  the  old  people. 
These  are  the  veterans  in  the  battle  of  life  and  it  is 
our  duty  to  do  all  that  we  can  to  make  their  last  stay 
on  earth  as  comfortable  as  possible.  It  seems  cruel 
to  me  when  I  see  how  cool  and  indifferent  some  chil- 
dren are  toward  their  parents,  and  also  how  indifferent 
some  doctors  act  when  an  old  person  is  sick.  It  is 
often  remarked :  "  They  are  old  enough  to  die  any 
way ;  you  can't  do  much  for  them."  There  is  a  higher 
law  than  our  poor  human  laws  that  govern  such  cases, 
and  it  is  this — "  Just  the  way  we  treat  these  old  people, 
so  will  we  be  treated  when  we  get  old."  One  of  the 
brightest  spots  in  my  life  is  the  fervent  "  God  bless 
you,  doctor  "  I  have  heard  from  some  old  person  that 
I  have  treated  and  helped.  Above  all  be  good  and 
kind  to  the  old  people.  Study  their  diseases  and  learn 
how  to  treat  them. 

Vertigo.  When  there  is  a  sensation  of  swaying  to 
and  fro  in  the  brain,  made  worse  by  stooping,  head- 
ache of  a  bursting  character,  feels  as  if  the  brain  would 
protrude  through  the  forehead,  aconite  third  decimal 
dilution  is  the  remedy.  Add  twenty  drops  to  a  half 
glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  In 
Meniere's  disease  with  vertigo,  hardness  of  hearing, 
tinnitus  aurium,  unsteady  gait,  sluggish  circulation, 
ammonium  iodatum  is  the  remedy.  Give  two  grains 
once  in  three  hours. 

In  my  practice  in  vertigo,  with  noises  in  the  ears, 
I  have  given  ergot  more  than  any  other  remedy.  I 
prescribe  Fl.  Ext.  ergot  gtts.  x  three  times  a  day.  It 
seems  to  contract  the  small  blood  vessels  of  the  head. 
Vertigo,  worse  when  looking  up,  or  rising  from  a  sit- 
ting position,  constant  dread  of  falling,  calls  for  kali 


38  Definite  Medication 

phos.  third  decimal.  Give  three  tablets  once  in  three 
hours.  When  with  vertigo  there  is  a  deficient  supply 
of  blood  to  the  brain  from  an  enfeebled  heart,  with 
palpitation  and  breathlessness,  a  slow  feeble  pulse, 
digitalis  is  the  remedy  needed.  Give  five  drops  of  the 
first  decimal  dilution  three  times  a  day. 

In  old  people  with  chronic  cerebral  congestion  that 
causes  much  giddiness  with  little  or  no  pain  in  the 
head,  iodine  is  the  remedy.  You  should  prescribe  five 
drops  of  the  sixth  decimal  dilution  in  a  little  water 
once  in  three  hours. 

Delirium  Tremens.  When  the  face  is  pale  and  sunken, 
violent  outbursts  of  delirium,  but  cannot  keep  it  up 
long  on  account  of  weakness,  patient  is  suspicious, 
thinks  you  are  trying  to  poison  him,  twitching  of  every 
muscle  in  the  body  from  the  toes  to  the  eyes,  hyoscy- 
amus  is  the  remedy.  Give  Tr.  hyocyamus  gtts.  xx, 
Aqua  *iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 
The  patient  should  be  plentifully  supplied  with  beef 
tea  made  hot  with  capsicum.  It  is  a  good  diet  for 
such  patients  and  often  calms  them.  Canabis  indica 
is  one  of  our  best  remedies  given  as  follows : 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Canabis  Ind.,  3iv. 
Tr.  Tolu,  giss. 

Mix.  Sig.  Twenty  to  thirty  drops  on  sugar  every 
hour  until  the  patient  sleeps.  The  above  has  been 
used  by  Dr.  George  Silvers,  Rahway,  N.  J.,  for  over 
forty  years  successfully,  without  any  other  remedy  and 
without  any  deaths.  In  my  own  practice  the  beef  tea 
with  capsicum  is  used  for  a  constant  drink.  Bromidia 
in  teaspoonful  doses  to  make  them  sleep  has  generally 


Definite  Medication  39 

proved  successful  in  my  hands.  (See  Dipsomania  and 
Softening  of  the  Brain.) 

There  are  two  other  remedies  especially  indicated, 
kali  phos.  sixth  decimal,  and  kali  mur.,  sixth  decimal. 
Give  them  every  three  hours  in  alternation,  three  tab- 
lets being-  the  dose. 

Mania.  It  seems  to  me  that  physicians  should  be 
very  careful  before  they  put  their  names  to  a  certificate 
to  send  a  person  away  to  an  insane  asylum,  that  they 
are  really  insane  beyond  the  shadow  of  a  doubt.  It 
is  a  fact  that  there  have  been  quite  a  number  of  per- 
sons railroaded  to  the  insane  asylum  who  were  per- 
fectly sane. 

From  my  book  of  experience  I  will  give  you  my  ex- 
perience with  some  cases  of  mania  that  I  have  seen  in 
my  practice.  One  night  I  was  called  out  into  the 
country  about  ten  miles  to  a  small  village  to  see  a  man 
supposed  to  be  insane.  When  I  arrived  at  the  village, 
some  time  after  midnight,  I  found  it  nearly  depopu- 
lated. I  could  not  find  my  prospective  patient  so  I 
followed  the  crowd  to  learn  the  cause  of  the  excite- 
ment. It  seemed  that  the  crazy  man  had  escaped  to 
the  woods.  The  crowd  had  located  him  but  were 
afraid  to  go  near  him  for  he  was  armed  with  a  razor 
and  a  big  knife  and  was  evidently  out  for  blood.  I 
tried  to  get  the  constable  to  go  out  and  bring  the  man 
in  so  I  could  prescribe  for  him — but  he  did  not  seem 
to  enthuse  over  the  idea,  so  I  told  him  that  he  and  I 
would  go  and  get  the  man.  We  started  in  a  round- 
about way  so  as  to  quietly  come  up  behind  the  man. 
It  was  so  dark  that  we  could  not  see  him  but  we  could 
hear  him  talking.  When  I  got  close  to  him,  from  the 
rear,  I  clasped  my  hands  round  his  arms  and  held  them 


40  Definite  Medication 

close  to  his  body,  while  the  constable  secured  the  im- 
plements of  war.  We  escorted  him  up  to  the  house. 
He  was  the  most  docile  insane  man  I  ever  saw.  They 
put  him  to  bed  and  I  gave  him  the  following  prescrip- 
tion: 

1$     Bromide  potash,  3ii. 
Aqua,  giv. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

It  was  simply  a  bad  case  of  hysteria  in  a  man.  I 
heard  nothing  more  from  the  patient. 

Another  case  I  was  called  to  was  a  farmer.  When 
the  messenger  came  after  me  he  said  the  man  was  so 
crazy  they  could  not  do  anything  with  him.  When  I 
got  near  enough  to  the  patient  to  examine  him  I  no- 
ticed a  foul  breath,  tongue  broad  and  flabby,  the  eyes 
showed  that  the  glands  were  not  secreting  properly, 
the  examination  of  the  bowels  revealed  an  impaction 
of  feces  in  the  colon.  The  man  was  being  poisoned 
from  his  own  internal  secretions.  I  gave  him  a  good 
emetic  of  pulv.  mustard  and  ipecac — half  a  teaspoonful 
of  each  in  a  cup  of  warm  water.  When  he  had  vom- 
ited freely  I  gave  him  Fl.  Ext.  cascara  sagrada  and 
glycerine  a.  a.  §ii.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in 
two  hours  until  it  operated  freely  on  the  bowels.  He 
was  also  given  Tr.  hyoscyamus — fifteen  drops  once  in 
two  hours — to  quiet  the  nerves.  When  I  saw  him  the 
next  day  the  bowels  had  moved  freely  and  he  was 
better  in  every  way. 

A  lady  of  middle  age  was  taken  insane.  They  had 
decided  to  have  her  taken  to  the  asylum  when  some 
one  advised  their  sending  for  me.  After  I  had  exam- 
ined the  pulse,  the  tongue  and  the  eyes,  I  felt  sure 


Definite  Medication  41 

there  was  a  congestion  somewhere.  The  red  points 
(papillae)  on  the  tongue  showed  an  invasion  of  some 
disease.  Upon  placing  my  hand  over  the  uterus  I 
found  much  heat  in  the  parts  which  were  very  sensi- 
tive. Under  the  circumstances  I  could  not  make  a 
vaginal  examination  but  my  diagnosis  was  congestion 
of  the  neck  of  the  uterus.  When  congestion  is  local- 
ized, as  in  the  first  stages  of  boils,  abscesses,  car- 
buncles, or  in  the  uterus,  brain  or  other  organs  we 
know  that  belladonna  is  the  remedy  indicated.  I  gave 
this  patient  Tt.  belladonna  third  decimal  dilution,  five 
drops  once  in  two  hours  and  sepia  sixth  decimal,  three 
tablets  once  in  three  hours.  I  also  used  Micajah's 
uterine  wafers  every  other  night.  One  was  placed 
against  the  os  uteri.  They  will  deplete  the  blood  from 
the  congested  os  better  than  curetting.  This  treat- 
ment was  followed  until  the  patient  recovered  entirely. 
All  three  of  these  cases  would  have  been  sent  to  the 
asylum  if  it  had  not  been  for  the  treatment  they  re- 
ceived. 

A  married  woman  became  pregnant.  After  she 
found  herself  in  "  the  way  that  women  like  to  be  who 
love  their  lords  "  she  developed  a  form  of  puerperal 
mania  and  began  to  hate  her  husband  intensely.  A 
dark  cloud  seemed  to  settle  over  her  and  she  began  to 
lose  interest  in  everything.  One  Sunday  I  drove  into 
town  just  as  church  service  was  out  in  one  of  the 
churches.  A  crowd  around  the  parsonage  attracted 
my  attention.  I  was  called  in  to  see  this  lady.  That 
morning  she  had  obtained  some  laudanum  and  taken 
a  pretty  good  sized  dose  of  it  to  get  rid  of  all  her 
troubles.  I  gave  her  an  emetic  of  pulv.  ipecac  and 
mustard,  one  teaspoonful  of  each  in  a  cup  of  warm 


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water.  They  had  to  hold  her  while  I  managed  to  get 
the  mixture  into  her  mouth.  She  vomited  freely  but 
it  had  been  so  long  since  she  took  the  opium  that  the 
system  was  fully  under  its  narcotic  influence.  All 
night  we  took  turns  keeping  her  awake.  When  I  felt 
that  I  had  overcome  the  effects  of  the  opium  I  gave 
her  Tr.  cimicifuga  third  decimal  dilution,  ten  drops 
once  in  three  hours,  for  that  form  of  mania.  She  went 
to  the  end  of  her  time,  was  just  as  rational  as  any  one 
and  gave  birth  to  a  healthy  child. 

In  mania  there  are  three  prominent  remedies  indi- 
cated, belladonna,  hyoscyamus  and  stramonium.  Each 
remedy  has  a  clear  cut  indication.  In  the  belladonna 
cases  the  eyes  are  red  and  blood  shot,  face  red,  you 
can  see  the  carotids  throb  plainly,  there  is  wild  de- 
lirium, patient  thinks  he  sees  ghosts  and  hideous  faces. 
He  has  a  fixed  savage  look,  with  now  and  then  ebulli- 
tions of  rage  and  fury.  For  such  cases  give  the  second 
decimal  dilution  of  belladonna,  twenty  drops  in  half  a 
glass  of  water — a  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  every 
hour. 

In  the  cases  calling  for  stramonium  the  patient  sees 
all  kinds  of  queer  things  and  the  sight  of  them  frightens 
him,  keeps  jerking  his  head  up  from  the  pillow.  He  is 
very  loquacious,  going  from  one  subject  to  another. 
Rolling  round  over  the  bed  in  all  shapes.  We  have 
only  to  note  the  intensity  of  the  raving  to  call  to  our 
mind  the  stramonium.  Give  Tr.  stramonium  gtts.  x, 
aqua  ^iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

Where  hyoscyamus  is  indicated  there  is  a  pale 
sunken  face,  twitching  of  all  the  muscles  from  the  toes 
to  the  eyes,  kicks  off  the  clothes,  indecent  exposure  of 
the  body,  very  suspicious,  fears  they  will  be  poisoned. 


Definite  Medication  43 

In  such  cases  give  Tr.  hyoscyamus  first  decimal  dilu- 
tion, fifteen  drops  in  a  glass  half  full  of  water  and  have 
the  patient  take  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

We  have  one  remedy  for  mania  with  the  following 
symptoms.  Extreme  anguish.  They  sit  for  hours 
with  head  bent  down,  hands  resting  on  their  knees,  do 
not  notice  anything,  vitality  at  its  lowest  ebb.  In  such 
cases  veratrum  album  third  decimal  dilution  is  the 
remedy.  Add  gtts.  xx  to  aqua  gvi.  Mix.  Sig. 
Teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  It  will  rouse  them  and 
put  new  life  and  vigor  into  them. 

Many  patients  are  on  the  border  line  of  insanity 
from  domestic  troubles,  financial  affairs,  excessive 
mental  exertion.  The  brain  is  worn  out  (a  world 
weary  brain).  Such  persons  need  kali  phos.  It  is 
found  in  the  gray  matter  of  the  brain  and  a  lack  of  this 
salt  will  cause  weakness  of  the  nervous  system.  Many 
persons  could  be  saved  by  this  remedy  from  becoming 
nervous  wrecks  and  inmates  of  insane  asylums.  Study 
its  actions,  get  acquainted  with  it.  In  cases  like  the 
above  give  kali  phos.  third  decimal  trit.,  three  tablets 
once  in  two  hours. 

Suicidal  Mania.  When  there  is  suppressed  deep 
grief,  long  drawn  sighs,  much  sobbing,  a  disposition  to 
hide  that  grief  from  others.  "  The  grief  that  cannot 
speak.  Whispers  the  o'er  fraught  heart  and  bids  it 
break."  Such  patients  often  long  for  death  as  the  only 
release  from  their  grief.  In  such  cases  ignatia  is  the 
remedy.  Prescribe  ignatia  gtts.  v,  aqua  §iv.  Mix. 
Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

When  there  is  a  sensation  of  a  heavy  black  cloud 
settling  down  over  your  patient  and  in  puerperal  mania 
when  she  thinks  she  is  going  crazy  and  tries  to  injure 


44  Definite  Medication 

herself,  cimicifuga  is  the  remedy  indicated.  Give  Tr. 
cimicifuga  five  drops  once  in  three  hours. 

When  the  patient  fears  to  be  alone,  is  anxious  about 
her  disease,  thinks  she  may  become  insane;  in  mania 
she  curses,  strikes,  has  obscene  thoughts.  This  case 
is  the  opposite  from  the  one  presenting  the  ignatia 
symptoms.  While  that  patient  had  the  deep  silent 
grief,  this  one  can  hardly  avoid  weeping.  For  the 
latter  form  lillium  tigrinum  is  the  indicated  remedy. 
Add  Tr.  lillium  gtts.  xx  to  aqua  %iv.  Mix.  Sig. 
Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

When  the  mind  seems  to  be  constantly  dwelling  on 
suicide,  longs  for  death,  wishes  to  be  alone,  religious, 
melancholy,  is  peevish  and  vehement,  the  least  con- 
tradiction arouses  the  patient's  wrath,  aurum  metalli- 
cum  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Give  three  tablets  once 
in  three  hours  of  the  third  decimal  trituration. 

When  patients  have  a  dry  red  tremulous  tongue,  a 
shrivelled  skin,  haggard  and  anxious  look,  much  ema- 
ciated, apt  to  mutiliate  the  body,  chewing  the  fingers, 
pulling  out  the  eyelashes,  scratching  holes  in  their 
face  and  scalp,  very  restless,  arsenicum  album  is  the 
remedy.  Give  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  tritu- 
ration every  three  hours. 


CHAPTER  III 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  ORGANS  OF  RESPIRATION 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication  47 


CHAPTER  III 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  ORGANS  OF  RESPIRATION 

CORYZA.  In  the  early  stage  of  coryza  with 
with  fever,  thirst,  great  restlessness,  nose  feels 
"  stuffy,"  cannot  breathe  through  it,  with  head- 
ache, aconite  is  the  remedy,  and  the  best  results  can 
be  obtained  by  placing  five  drops  of  Tr.  aconite  in  a 
glass  of  water,  teaspoonful  once  in  half  an  hour.  In 
the  fluent  form  of  this  disease,  eyes  water  all  the  time, 
they  are  stuck  together  in  the  morning,  margins  red 
and  swollen,  profuse  acrid  lachrymation,  watery  dis- 
charge from  the  nose,  euphrasia  officinalis  is  the  rem- 
edy. Prescribe  Tr.  euphrasia,  ten  drops  once  an  hour. 

With  watery  discharge  from  the  nose,  constant 
sneezing,  sore  round  the  nose,  loss  of  smell,  worse 
from  contact  with  cold  air,  natrium  mur,  is  the  rem- 
edy. Give  three  tablets  of  the  first  decimal  tritura- 
tion  once  in  two  hours.  When  there  is  soreness,  a 
raw  feeling  in  the  chest,  and  tickling  in  the  throat, 
with  phlegm,  hawking  of  mucus  from  the  posterior 
nares,  kali  mur.  third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Give 
three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  It  is  an  ideal  cough 
remedy  with  the  raw  feeling  in  the  chest  and  tickling 
in  the  throat.  This  indication  is  worth  golden  crowns. 

Inftuenza — La  Grippe.  For  the  headache,  red  face, 
throbbing  brain  and  carotids,  head  feels  bigger  than 
it  ought,  head  feels  compressed,  the  whole  top  of  the 
head  feels  sore,  belladonna  is  the  remedy.  Add  gtts. 
xxx  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  of  belladonna  to  a 


48  Definite  Medication 

glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 
When  there  is  great  soreness  all  over  the  body,  bones 
pain  severely — as  if  they  would  break,  hoarseness  and 
cough,  soreness  in  the  chest,  is  obliged  to  support  the 
chest  with  his  hands  when  he  coughs,  eupatorium  is 
the  indicated  remedy.  Put  twenty  drops  of  Tr.  eupa- 
torium perfoliatum  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  every  hour.  Kali  mur.  third  decimal  trit- 
uration  will  be  indicated  if  there  is  a  cough  with  tick- 
ling in  the  throat  and  a  raw  feeling  in  the  chest.  If  the 
pulse  shows  a  weak,  discouraged  feeling  as  the  acute 
symptoms  pass  away,  prescribe  one-thirtieth  grain  of 
sulph.  strychnia  before  each  meal  and  at  bedtime.  If 
the  case  is  properly  treated  there  should  be  no  un- 
pleasant sequel  to  it.  Patients  should  not  be  obliged 
to  tell  us  that  "  I  have  never  felt  well  since  I  had  that 
attack  of  la  grippe."  Be  sure  that  your  patient  is  en- 
tirely rid  of  all  the  symptoms  of  the  malady  before 
they  leave  your  care.  Many  cases  of  la  grippe  develop 
into  various  forms  of  catarrh,  bronchitis,  phthisis,  or  a 
general  weakness  of  the  whole  system.  The  coal  tar 
products,  and  various  kinds  of  dope,  often  used  in 
these  cases  lessen  the  vitality  of  the  patient  and  pro- 
long the  duration  of  the  disease  indefinitely.  Beware 
of  them.  From  my  own  experience  with  this  disease 
I  believe  it  can  be  cut  short  with  proper  treatment  and 
leave  no  trace  behind. 

Catarrh  (nasal).  In  my  experience  in  treating  nasal 
catarrh  from  different  parts  of  the  country,  I  find  that 
the  worst  cases  come  from  Northern  New  England 
and  from  the  vicinity  of  the  Great  Lakes  in  Ohio  and 
Michigan.  Those  who  work  in  machine  shops  and  in- 
hale the  fine  dust  have  the  disease  in  its  worst  form. 


Definite  Medication  49 

There  are  really  two  kinds  of  nasal  catarrh — the  moist 
and  the  dry.  Some  cases  are  complicated  with  syph- 
ilis where  the  bones  of  the  nose  are  partially  eaten 
away,  and  the  patient  must  be  treated  for  that  disease 
if  you  expect  to  get  any  benefit  from  your  treatment 
of  the  catarrh. 

In  the  fluent,  watery  catarrh,  I  like  the  following: 

I£     Calcarea  Phos.,  3d  x. 
Natrum  Mur.,  3d  x. 
Ferri  Phos.,  6th  x. 
Kali  Mur.,  3d  x  a.  a.  3i. 

Mix.  Make  into  tablets  of  two  grains  each  and  give 
three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  Locally  I  have  re- 
ceived the  best  results  from  the  following : 

3     Sol.  Nitre. 
Sodae  Boras. 
Ammonia  Muriate. 
Chloride  Sodium  a.  a.  §i- 

Mix  and  pulverize  fine,  then  add 

Oil  Gaultheria,  %i. 
Alcohol,  Oi. 
Aqua  Pura,  Oiv, 

Mix  the  oil  and  the  alcohol  with  the  water  and  then 
add  the  pulverized  salts.  Let  it  stand  forty-eight 
hours,  then  filter  and  it  is  ready  for  use.  Pour  some 
of  the  liquid  into  the  palm  of  the  hand  and  snuff  it  up 
the  nostrils  until  it  can  be  tasted  in  the  back  of  the 
throat.  Spit  it  out  and  gargle  the  throat  with  the 
same  liquid.  Do  this  three  times  a  day. 

Chronic  Catarrh.     For  patients  troubled  with  chronic 


50  Definite  Medication 

catarrh  the  following  will  be   found   convenient  and 
curative : 

I)     Iodine. 

Carbolic  acid,  a.  a.  3i. 
Aqua  ammonia,  3iii. 
Tr.  Camphor,  3iv. 

Mix.  Sig.  Fill  an  ounce  vial  half  full  of  absorbent 
cotton  and  drop  ten  drops  of  the  liquid  on  the  cotton 
in  the  bottle  and  inhale  three  times  for  ten  minutes. 

In  the  dry  form  of  nasal  catarrh  we  have  remedies 
that  are  especially  indicated.  When  there  is  burning 
pain  in  both  nostrils,  nose  obstructed  by  mucus,  voice 
thick,  altered,  thick  yellow  mucus  from  the  nose,  con- 
stant hacking  cough,  raw  sore  feeling  in  the  throat, 
nitrate  of  sanguinaria  is  the  remedy.  Give  one  grain 
of  the  sixth  decimal  trituration  once  in  two  hours. 
When  there  is  much  pain  at  the  root  of  the  nose, 
greenish  colored  slugs  and  clinkers  form  in  the  nose  and 
must  be  blown  out  every  morning,  there  may  be 
ulceration  of  the  septum,  with  pundied  out  ulcers, 
they  have  a  foul  breath  and  general  loss  of  smell. 
In  this  condition  bi-chromate  of  potash  is  the  rem- 
edy. Give  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  trit- 
uration once  in  three  hours.  As  a  local  remedy 
you  can  depend  upon  sulpho  carbolate  of  soda.  Dis- 
solve one-half  teaspoonful  in  a  pint  of  warm  water 
twice  daily.  Use  one-half  as  a  gargle  and  the  other  in 
an  atomizer.  I  have  cured  some  cases  in  my  practice 
where  the  patient  had  not  been  able  to  smell  anything 
for  several  years.  Three  out  of  five  of  our  people  have 
catarrh  in  some  form  and  every  doctor  should  know 


Definite  Medication  51 

how  to  treat  it  successfully,  and,  thereby,  add  just  so 
much  to  his  income  as  well  as  doing  good  to  suffering 
humanity. 

Nasal  Polypus.  I  have  had  good  success  in  this  dis- 
ease with  pulv.  sanguinaria.  Add  one  drachm  of  the 
sanguinaria  to  nine  drachms  of  sugar  of  milk.  Tritu- 
rate thoroughly  and  have  the  patient  use  it  as  a  snuff 
three  times  a  day. 

Epistaxis.  In  some  cases  of  nose  bleed  caused  by 
women  taking  cold  at  the  menstrual  period,  the  flow 
stopped.  I  have  given  ferri  phos.  third  decimal  tritu- 
ration,  five  grains  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and  directing 
the  patient  to  take  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  It 
checked  the  hemorrhage  from  the  nose  and  re-estab- 
lished the  menstrual  flow.  In  epistaxis  preceded  by 
very  red  face,  congestion  of  the  head,  throbbing  of  the 
carotids,  blood  hanging  in  clots  from  the  nostrils  like 
icicles,  meliotus  alba  is  the  remedy.  Put  ten  drops  Tr. 
meliotus  in  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoon- 
ful every  hour. 

In  one  case  where  I  was  called  in  consultation  vari- 
ous remedies  had  been  tried  to  check  the  bleeding.  I 
applied  pulverized  geranium  maculatum  on  cotton, 
pressing  it  well  up  into  the  nostril.  It  stopped  the 
hemorrhage. 

In  thin  weak  persons,  anemic,  easily  exhausted,  who 
suffer  from  epistaxis,  the  third  decimal  trituration  of 
ferrum  aceticum  will  prove  very  beneficial.  Give  three 
tablets  once  in  three  hours. 

Pharyngitis.  In  the  acute  form  of  pharyngitis  with 
difficulty  in  swallowing,  aching  and  fullness  of  the 
throat,  I  have  found  the  following  prescription  the  best 
of  any : 


52  Definite  Medication 

IJ     Tr.  Gelsemium. 

Tr.  Phytolacca  a.  a.  gtts.  xx. 
Aqua,  3iv. 

Mix.     Sig.    Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

With  this  I  use  a  gargle  made  as  follows :  Chlorate 
potash  grs.  xxx,  sulph.  zinc  grs.  v,  make  one  powder. 
Put  this  in  a  glass  of  warm  water  and  gargle  the  throat 
with  it  once  an  hour.  This  is  an  ideal  gargle  for  sore- 
ness of  the  throat.  I  have  used  it  since  I  first  began 
the  practice  of  medicine. 

In  pharyngitis  when  there  is  a  stiffness  and  dryness 
of  the  throat,  swallowing  is  painful,  burning  in  the 
throat,  guaiacum  is  the  remedy.  Dose  three  grains  of 
the  resin  in  tablet  form  once  in  two  hours. 

In  chronic  pharyngitis  with  feeling  of  splinters  in 
the  throat,  rawness,  soreness  and  scraping  with  hawk- 
ing of  thick  mucus  in  trying  to  clear  the  throat  argen- 
tum  nitricum  sixth  decimal  trituration,  three  tablets 
every  three  hours  is  the  remedy  indicated. 

Tonsilitis.  In  tonsilitis  I  depend  upon  the  following 
prescription : 

^     Tr.  Aconite,  gtts.  v. 
Tr.  Phytolacca,  gtts.  xx. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Apply  a  slippery  elm  poultice  around  the  neck  over 
the  throat.  Use  the  same  gargle  as  given  under  phar- 
yngitis. 

In  tonsilitis  when  first  one  tonsil,  then  the  other  is 
affected,  give  lac  caninum  thirtieth  decimal  dilution. 
Place  twenty  drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and  give 
tablespoonful  every  half  hour. 


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When  the  tongue  has  a  white  coating  and  there  are 
grey  patches  of  exudates  on  the  tonsils  kali  mur.  third 
decimal  is  the  remedy.  Add  five  grains  to  a  cup  of  hot 
water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

In  children  who  grow  too  fast,  or  in  adults  who  take 
cold  very  easily,  the  tonsils  are  apt  to  suppurate.  In 
such  conditions  the  third  decimal  trituration  of  baryta 
carb.  is  the  remedy.  Give  three  tablets  once  in  three 
hours. 

Chronic  Tonsilitis  (enlarged  tonsils).  When  there  is 
a  husky  voice,  obliged  to  keep  the  mouth  open  to 
breathe,  deafness,  difficulty  of  swallowing,  spongy  hy- 
pertrophy of  the  tonsils,  calcarea  phos.  second  decimal 
trituration  is  the  remedy.  Give  three  tablets  every 
three  hours.  In  enlarged,  indurated  tonsils  I  like  io- 
dide baryta  third  decimal  as  a  remedy.  Dose.  Three 
tablets  every  three  hours. 

Laryngitis.  In  the  first  stage  of  laryngitis  with 
fever,  hot  skin,  extreme  restlessness,  difficulty  of 
breathing,  aconite  is  the  remedy.  Add  twenty  drops 
of  the  third  decimal  dilution  to  a  glass  of  water  and 
give  teaspoonful  doses  every  hour.  In  cases  of  croup 
I  always  apply  an  onion  poultice  on  the  chest.  Then 
I  give  the  following  prescription : 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Eucalyptus. 

Fl.  Ext.  Jaborandi  a.  a.  §i. 

Mix.  Sig.     Ten  drops  on  sugar  once  in  half  an  hour. 

Many  of  my  families  kept  this  remedy  on  hand.  I 
have  used  it  for  a  good  many  years  and  have  learned 
to  depend  upon  it. 

In  membranous  croup  we  have  a  remedy  that  we  can 
rely  upon. 


54  Definite  Medication 

fy     Pulv.  Sanguinaria,  gr.  i. 
Vinegar,  §ii. 
Sugar,  §ss. 

Mix.  Steep  it  to  form  a  syrup.  Sig.  one  teaspoon- 
ful  as  often  as  indicated.  With  the  above  remedy  I 
have  cured  a  good  many  cases  of  membranous  croup. 
The  acetic  syrup  of  sanguinaria  is  one  of  the  old  re- 
liable remedies  handed  down  to  us  by  the  fathers  of 
the  Eclectic  school.  In  my  own  practice  I  have  never 
lost  a  case  of  croup  and  I  have  seen  it  in  the  worst 
forms.  I  have  met  with  this  disease  in  adults  and 
treated  it  in  the  same  general  way  and  cured  them. 
The  Comp.  Tr.  oil  stillingia  is  a  good  local  application. 
A  few  drops  rubbed  on  the  child's  throat  and  one  or 
two  drops  given  internally  on  sugar  will  produce  good 
results. 

Some  physicians  prefer  the  Comp.  Powder  of  Lo- 
belia (see  American  Dispensatory)  as  a  local  applica- 
tion. For  myself  I  prefer  the  onions  to  any  local  ap- 
plication for  croup. 

Chronic  Laryngitis.  When  the  throat  feels  sore,  pain 
in  the  larynx,  hoarseness,  excessive  accumulation  of 
mucus  in  the  throat,  voice  of  public  speakers  uncon- 
trollable— breaks  when  trying  to  speak  or  sing  in  a 
high  key,  as  found  in  clergymen  and  opera  singers,  Tr. 
arum  triphyllum  is  the  remedy.  Add  ten  drops  to 
four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
hour. 

When  there  is  partial  paralysis  of  the  vocal  cords, 
muscles  refuse  to  act,  rawness  and  tickling,  throat  dry, 
a  feeling  of  fullness  in  the  throat,  must  keep  swallow- 
ing secretion  that  cannot  be  raised,  the  urine  passes 


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easily  without  the  patient  being  aware  of  it,  causticum 
third  decimal  trituration  is  the  remedy  needed.  Dose. 
Three  tablets  every  two  hours. 

When  there  is  a  sensation  of  a  lump  in  the  throat,  a 
dry  spot  in  the  throat,  must  keep  swallowing  and 
hawking  when  there  is  no  secretion  to  expectorate, 
only  a  constant  tickling  and  irritation  in  the  throat, 
lachesis  sixth  decimal  is  the  remedy  indicated.  Dose. 
Three  tablets  once  in  two  hours. 

Edema  Glottidis.  When  the  throat  looks  intensely 
red,  with  burning,  stinging  pains,  throat  looks  as 
though  a  bee  had  stung  it,  apis  mel.  is  the  remedy. 
Add  twenty  drops  of  Tr.  apis  mel  to  four  ounces  of 
water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Acute  Bronchitis.  When  there  is  fever,  great  rest- 
lessness, soreness  in  the  chest,  dry  cough,  this  pre- 
scription will  prove  helpful. 

1$     Tr.  Aconite,  gtts.  v. 

Fl.  Ext.  Asclepias  Tub,  gi. 
Aqua,  §v. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

In  the  subacute  stage  with  a  feeling  of  rawness  in 
the  chest  and  tickling  cough,  tongue  coated  white,  give 
kali  mur.  third  decimal,  three  tablets  once  in  two 
hours.  In  the  stubborn  cough  of  chronic  bronchitis, 
when  the  irritation  is  in  the  trachea  and  bronchi  give 
this  prescription. 

I£     Tr.  Inula  helenium,  3ii. 
Tr.  Asclepias  tub.,  3ii. 
Simple  Syrup,  o»- 
Aqua  q.  s.,  ad.  §iv. 


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Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  half  hour. 

In  patients  of  a  strumous  diathesis,  where  the  irri- 
tability is  in  the  upper  part  of  the  respiratory  tract 
prescribe  the  following: 

^     Tr.  Stillingia,  5iv. 

Syr.  Wild  Cherry,  3120. 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 
-When  there  is  soreness  of  the  chest,  takes  cold 
easily,  cough  loose  and  rattling,  respiration  hoarse  and 
wheezing,  perspiration  sour,  hepar  sulph.  is  the  rem- 
edy indicated.  Give  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal 
every  two  hours. 

Chronic  Bronchitis.  In  chronic  bronchitis  where  there 
is  great  weakness  in  the  chest,  patient  so  weak  he  can- 
not talk,  sing  or  read  aloud,  cough  deep,  hollow,  stran- 
gling and  in  paroxysms,  expectoration  sweetish,  putrid, 
yellow  green  pus,  stannum  is  the  remedy.  Use  the 
sixth  decimal  and  give  three  tablets  every  two  hours. 
Should  the  pulse  have  a  weak  discouraged  feeling  to 
it  give  sulph.  strychnine  one-thirtieth  gr.  before  each 
meal  and  at  bedtime.  Also  give  the  medicated  bath 
of  Epsom  salts  and  warm  water,  three  times  a  week. 

Acute  Pleurisy.  In  acute  cases  where  there  are  sharp 
stitching  pains,  worse  from  motion,  very  thirsty,  can 
drink  large  quantities  of  water,  bryonia  alba  is  the 
remedy.  Add  gtts.  five  of  Tr.  bryonia  to  four  ounces 
of  water  and  give  in  teaspoonful  doses  every  hour. 
Asclepias  tuberosa  is  indicated  when  there  is  dry  hack- 
ing cough,  scanty  mucous  expectoration,  parts  sensitive 
to  pressure.  Here  you  should  give  gtts.  twenty  of  the 
Tr.  asclepias,  tub.,  every  hour  in  alternation  with  the 
bryonia.  Locally,  to  give  the  patient  quick  relief  I 


Definite  Medication  57 

apply  equal  parts  of  pulverized  ginger,  mustard  and 
capsicum.  Make  a  paste  with  hot  vinegar  and  apply 
by  spreading  on  a  soft  cloth  and  placing  over  the  af- 
fected part.  Libradol  (Lloyd's)  is  also  a  good  appli- 
cation. Spread  it  on  thin  paper  and  apply  to  the  pain- 
ful part. 

When  plastic  exudation  has  taken  place  kali  mur., 
third  decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Put  five  grains  in  a 
glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Chronic  Pleurisy.  In  chronic  pleurisy  give  twenty 
drops  of  Fl.  Ext.  pleurisy  root  once  in  two  hours. 
Also  add  four  drachms  acetate  potash  to  six  ounces  of 
water  and  give  two  teaspoonfuls  of  this  mixture  four 
times  a  day.  If  the  above  does  not  remove  the  effu- 
sion, add  carbonate  ammonium  four  drachms  to  water 
six  ounces  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  three  hours. 

In  one  case  where  I  was  called  in  consultation,  a 
man  had  been  hurt  in  a  sawmill.  His  ribs  were  frac- 
tured. Later  on  he  developed  fluid  in  the  pleural  cav- 
ity. My  advice  was  asked.  I  advised  the  physician 
attending  him  to  give  a  certain  course  of  treatment 
but  he  called  some  other  doctor  in  consultation.  They 
advised  tapping  him  and  drawing  off  the  fluid.  This 
the  patient  would  not  consent  to  do  without  my  sanc- 
tion. He  came  to  me  after  he  had  discharged  the 
other  doctor.  I  put  him  upon  the  same  treatment  that 
I  had  advised  his  former  doctor  to  use,  viz. :  Put 
iodine  grs.  eighty  in  an  ounce  of  alcohol.  Mix.  Sig. 
Give  ten  drops  in  a  tablespoonful  of  milk  after  each 
meal.  Increase  the  iodine  solution  two  drops  a  day 
until  the  patient  received  sixty  drops  three  times  a 
day.  The  quantity  of  milk  to  be  also  increased  with 
each  dose  every  day.  To  offset  the  action  of  the  iodine 


58  Definite  Medication 

I  gave  him  five  grains  sulph.  quinine  before  each  meal. 
I  applied  locally  over  the  chest  on  the  affected  side  a 
Comp.  tar  plaster  (irritating  plaster — see  American 
Dispensatory).  The  plaster  was  respread  every  day 
until  I  got  up  a  free  discharge  of  pus  from  the  sore. 
Then  I  applied  simple  cerate  to  heal  the  sore.  In  this 
way  I  got  rid  of  the  effusion  and  cured  my  patient. 
That  was  thirty-four  years  ago.  He  was  alive  and 
well  the  last  I  heard  from  him  and  never  had  any 
trouble  with  his  side.  This  case  shows  what  can  be 
done  in  desperate  cases  when  we  know  what  remedies 
to  use. 

Iodine  given  as  above  is  a  powerful  absorbent  and 
the  milk  keeps  it  from  irritating  the  stomach. 

Asthma.  In  asthma  associated  with  emphysema, 
pale  face,  lips,  cyanotic,  pulse  small  and  soft,  especially 
in  old  people,  aspidosperma  quebracho  is  the  remedy. 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Quebracho,  §i. 
Simple  Syrup,  §vii. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  three  hours. 

When  there  is  difficulty  of  breathing  due  to  a  feeling 
of  constriction  or  weight  in  the  chest.  It  feels  as 
though  the  blood  was  running  to  the  chest.  In  such 
a  condition  lobelia  inflata  is  the  remedy.  Give  ten 
drops  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  every  hour. 

In  asthma  when  the  breath  stops  when  the  patient 
goes  to  sleep,  and  he  wakes  with  a  start,  gasping  for 
breath,  there  is  a  cough  attended  with  tenacious  mucus 
Tr.  grindelia  robusta  is  the  remedy.  Dose.  Ten 
drops  once  in  two  hours. 

In  old  people  who  are  asthmatic  and  have  to  sit 
propped  up  in  bed,  dyspnea,  great  accumulation  of 


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mucus  with  much  rattling  and  wheezing,  give  Tr. 
senega.  Put  seven  drops  in  a  half  glass  of  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour  until  relieved.  There 
are  two  remedies  especially  indicated  in  asthma. 
Sumbul  and  gelsemium,  and  I  have  given  them  to- 
gether with  good  results.  In  a  severe  attack  of  asthma 
when  the  patient  was  pressed  for  breath  and  wheezing 
I  gave  Tr.  gelsemium  and  Tr.  sumbul  a.a.  eight  drops 
in  a  tablespoonful  of  water  once  in  fifteen  minutes 
until  relieved.  Many  a  time  this  remedy  has  helped 
me  relieve  an  asthmatic  patient. 

Aphonia.  In  hoarseness,  as  a  result  of  cold,  the  rem- 
edy is  bi-chromate  of  potash.  It  seems  to  have  an 
especial  affinity  for  the  larynx.  Dose.  Three  tablets 
of  the  third  decimal  once  in  three  hours. 

In  one  case  of  partial  paralysis  of  the  vocal  cords 
where  I  was  called  in  consultation,  the  lady  had  lost 
her  voice  for  several  months.  I  advised  oil  erigeron, 
five  drops  on  sugar  once  in  two  hours,  and  sulph. 
strychnine  one-thirtieth  gr.  before  each  meal  and  at 
bedtime.  The  patient  recovered  her  voice.  In  an- 
other case  I  saw  in  consultation  the  patient  had  had 
an  attack  of  laryngitis  which  had  left  him  with  a  loss 
of  the  voice.  The  great  soreness  in  the  throat  and 
mouth  with  aphthea  made  me  think  of  rhus  glabra.  I 
advised  Tr.  rhus  glabra  in  fifteen  drop  doses  every  two 
hours.  The  remedy  made  his  throat  and  mouth  feel 
much  better  and  restored  his  voice.  For  other  reme- 
dies, see  Chronic  Laryngitis. 

Pneumonia.  In  the  first  stage  of  congestion  or  en- 
gorgement of  the  lungs  veratrum  is  the  remedy  and  is 
only  indicated  in  this  stage.  Pulse,  hard  and  full,  res- 
piration rapid,  difficulty  of  breathing,  dry  cough,  feel- 


60  Definite  Medication 

ing  of  heavy  weight  on  the  chest  are  the  indications 
calling  for  this  remedy. 

Asclepias  may  be  combined  with  the  veratrum  to 
good  advantage  as  seen  in  the  following  prescription: 

^     Tr.  Veratrum  Viride,  gtts.  x. 
Fl.  Ext.  Asclepias  Tub.,  §i. 
Aqua,  §iv. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

If  it  should  cause  any  nausea  give  it  once  in  two 
hours.  The  patient  should  have  a  warm  Epsom  salt 
bath  once  in  twenty-four  hours  (one  ounce  of  Epsom 
salts  to  one  pint  of  warm  water).  I  usually  apply  an 
onion  poultice  over  the  lungs,  prepared  as  follows: 
Slice  up  the  onions,  heat  them  over  the  fire,  then  make 
two  bags  the  size  of  the  chest,  fill  them  with  the 
onions.  Use  first  one  bag  and  then  the  other,  chang- 
ing them  every  half  hour;  put  them  on  as  hot  as  the 
patient  can  comfortably  bare  them.  They  help  to  re- 
lieve the  congestion,  they  are  relaxing  and  will  absorb 
morbid  matter.  One  doctor  in  Connecticut  practiced 
for  fifty  years.  He  used  the  onion  poultice  and  never 
lost  a  case  of  pneumonia.  As  a  local  application  for 
the  lungs  it  has  no  equal.  In  the  second  stage  of  he- 
patization,  leave  off  the  veratrum  mixture;  place  ten 
grains  kali  mur.  third  decimal  in  a  goblet  of  water,  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  It  not  only  re- 
moves plastic  exudation  but  acts  as  a  thermal  sedative. 
If  your  patient  at  the  commencement  shows  a  weak- 
ened vitality  give  sulph.  strychnine  one-thirtieth  gr. 
once  in  three  hours,  but  ordinarily  I  give  sulph.  qui- 
nine grs.  two  with  ipecac  one-fourth  gr.  once  in  three 
hours.  If  your  patient  has  been  used  to  stimulants 


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give  him  one  teaspoonful  of  good  whiskey  and  two 
teaspoon^uls  of  water  with  the  quinine.  With  the  qui- 
nine powder  as  directed  and  the  kali  mur.  third  deci- 
mal, we  have  the  treatment  for  the  second  stage. 

When  there  is  sputum  that  resembles  prune  juice  or 
of  a  chocolate  color,  baptisia  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
fifteen  drops  once  in  three  hours.  In  the  stage  of 
resolution  when  there  is  great  rattling  of  mucus,  lungs 
seem  filled  up  completely,  cannot  raise  anything,  tartar 
emetic  may  be  given ;  add  one  grain  of  the  crude  drug 
to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
hour.  In  my  practice  I  lost  one  case  of  pneumonia  in 
my  younger  days ;  a  man  over  sixty  years  old  and  that 
was  the  only  case  I  ever  lost.  I  have  seen  pneumonia 
in  all  its  forms  in  northern  New  England,  New  Jersey, 
and  around  the  lakes  in  Ohio,  and  I  am  not  any  more 
afraid  of  it  than  of  a  case  of  measles.  Keep  out  the 
coal  tar  products  and  any  kind  of  opiates  and  physic. 
Don't  think  that  the  patient  must  be  physicked  the 
first  thing.  When  Nature  needs  a  movement  of  the 
bowels  she  will  let  you  know.  I  never  give  anything 
of  that  kind  until  I  am  sure  that  I  have  the  disease 
mastered,  and  then  only  a  mild  laxative. 

In  several  cases  where  I  have  been  called  to  pre- 
scribe for  patients  that  have  been  under  the  care  of 
other  physicains  who  had  failed  to  help  them  I  had  to 
vary  my  treatment  a  little  to  meet  the  indications  but 
the  main  treatment,  as  given  above,  is  what  I  depend 
upon  in  pneumonia. 

Typhoid  Pneumonia.  In  typhoid  pneumonia  I  give 
the  quinine,  two  grs.  once  in  three  hours,  with  one 
teaspoonful  of  whiskey  in  two  teaspoonfuls  of  water ; 
I  also  give  the  Tr.  baptisia  ten  drops  once  in  three 


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hours.  In  one  case  a  man  lay  like  a  dead  man  for  ten 
days.  It  seemed  that  he  hardly  breathed,  scarcely  any 
pulse,  could  not  raise  his  hand  to  his  head,  as  helpless 
as  an  infant,  yet  he  recovered  under  the  above  treat- 
ment. 

Whooping  Cough.  When  the  paroxysms  of  coughing 
follow  in  rapid  succession  like  a  "  minute  gun,"  usually 
in  the  evening  or  about  midnight,  cough  has  a  deep 
trumpet  like  sound,  child  raises  a  large  quantity  of 
tenacious  mucus ;  a  great  constriction  of  the  chest  and 
abdominal  muscles,  so  that  the  child  presses  its  hands 
against  them,  drosera  rotundifolia  is  the  remedy. 
Dose.  Tr.  drosera  gtts.  xx,  aqua  ounces  iv.  Mix.  Sig. 
Teaspoonful  every  hour.  In  whooping  cough,  when 
child  loses  breath,  turns  pale,  stiff  and  blue,  strangling, 
with  gagging  and  vomiting  of  mucus,  bleeding  from 
the  nose,  ipecac  is  the  remedy.  Add  Tr.  ipecac  gtts.  x 
to  aqua  £iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  hour.  In 
whooping  cough  with  long  continued  paroxysms,  child 
turns  purple  in  the  face  and  seems  as  if  suffocated. 
The  perspiration  starts,  there  is  expectorated  large 
quantities  of  mucus,  naphthalinum  is  the  remedy  indi- 
cated. Give  two  tablets  of  first  decimal  every  hour. 
When  in  this  diseased  condition  there  is  a  short  hack- 
ing cough  during  the  day  like  a  "  minute  gun."  Not 
any  whooping  in  the  daytime  but  at  night,  the  cough 
is  worse  at  night,  corallium  rubrum  third  decimal  is 
the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  I 
have  seen  good  results  from  taking  children  with 
whooping  cough  into  the  gas  house  for  a  short  time 
two  or  three  times  a  week.  The  odor  from  the  gas- 
making  has  proved  beneficial  in  helping  to  break  up 
the  disease. 


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Bronchocele.  When  I  have  used  a  saturated  Tr.  iris 
versicolar,  made  as  follows  (fresh  root  just  dug,  mash 
the  roots ;  put  eight  ounces  in  a  pint  of  eighty  per  cent, 
alcohol.  Let  it  stand  fourteen  days  and  filter),  I  made 
some  fine  cures  of  goitre.  The  dose  was  twenty-five 
drops  three  times  a  day  after  meals.  If  the  doctors 
would  make  a  tincture  of  the  blue  flag  root  in  June 
when  the  plant  is  in  flower — make  it  from  the  green 
root — they  would  find  it  a  great  absorbent.  Locally 
apply  the  following  prescription.  Tr.  Iodine,  Tr. 
Phytolacca  a.  a.  two  drachms.  Mix.  Sig.  Paint  over 
the  enlarged  glands  night  and  morning.  Calcarea 
Iodide,  one-third  gr.  every  three  hours  for  a  week  then 
double  the  dose,  has  also  helped  me  to  cure  some  cases. 

Diphtheria.  In  1866  when  an  epidemic  of  this  dis- 
ease swept  over  New  England  and  so  many  cases 
proved  fatal,  the  regular  physicians  used  to  burn  out 
the  throat  with  nitrate  of  silver  and  lost  about  every 
case  they  treated.  When  I  was  attacked  by  the  dis- 
ease my  father  called  a  Homeopath — Dr.  Francis  A. 
Roberts,  of  North  Vassalboro,  Maine — to  attend  me. 
I  had  the  disease  about  as  bad  as  any  in  that  part  of 
the  country,  yet  I  recovered  under  his  treatment  as 
did,  indeed,  about  all  the  other  cases  which  he  treated. 
He  was  one  of  the  finest  men  I  ever  met;  he  has 
passed  over  the  silent  river  of  death — a  man  loved  and 
respected  by  all  who  knew  him,  a  type  of  the  old  school 
of  Homeopathic  physicians  who  believed  in  Home- 
opathy pure  and  simple.  In  "  Marcy  and  Hunt's  Prac- 
tice "  (Homeopathic)  published  1865,  the  authors  re- 
port "  two  hundred  cases  of  diphtheria  treated  and  a 
mortality  of  less  than  one  per  cent." 

How  is  that  for  some  of  the  modern  Homeopaths 


64  Definite  Medication 

who  claim  that  they  cannot  cure  diphtheria  without 
antitoxin  ? 

I  was  taught  how  to  cure  diphtheria  forty-two  years 
ago  in  the  Eclectic  college  and  now  after  forty  years' 
practice  I  can  truthfully  say  that  I  do  not  fear  to  treat 
the  disease  in  any  form.  I  have  been  through  several 
epidemics  and  always  had  good  success  with  my  cases. 
I  never  was  guilty  of  poisoning  their  system  with  the 
filthy  horse  serum  called  antitoxin  that  has  killed  and 
crippled  so  many  of  our  children. 

In  the  treatment  of  diphtheria,  not  malignant,  I  give 
the  following: 

^  Tr.  Phytolacca,  gtts.  xx. 
Tr.  Gelsemium,  gtts.  xx. 
Aqua,  §iv. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

I  use  a  gargle  of  pulv.  chlorate  potash  half  a  drachm 
and  sulph.  zinc  five  grains  added  to  a  glass  of  warm 
water.  Stir  it  thoroughly  and  gargle  the  throat  once 
an  hour.  If  the  child  is  too  young  to  gargle  the  throat 
have  the  nurse  swab  out  the  throat  with  the  solution 
every  hour.  I  also  apply  a  poultice  of  pulverized  slip- 
pery elm,  wet  with  warm  water,  round  the  neck  over 
the  throat.  This  should  be  changed  once  in  two  hours. 
It  feels  good  and  it  is  good  for  the  patient.  As  soon 
as  the  skin  is  moist,  pulse  soft  and  tongue  cleaning 
off,  I  begin  giving  two  grains  quinine  every  three 
hours.  If  the  tongue  has  a  yellowish  brown  coating  I 
like  the  effect  of  sulphurous  acid.  I  add  two  drachms 
of  the  acid  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  in  tea- 
spoonful  doses  every  two  hours.  It  is  one  of  the  best 


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antiseptics  that  we  have  and  is  often  indicated  in  this 
disease. 

In  the  malignant  form  of  diphtheria,  when  the  throat 
fills  right  up  with  the  edematous  swelling,  the  uvula 
hanging  down  like  a  transparent  sac  filled  with  water, 
the  patient  in  danger  of  suffocation,  throat  intensely 
red,  dry  and  glazed  looking,  with  burning,  stinging 
pains — sometimes  no  pain  at  all,  this  is  the  most  dan- 
gerous symptom, — if  you  look  down  the  child's  throat 
it  looks  as  if  a  bee  had  stung  it,  apis  mel.  is  the  remedy. 
Add  ten  drops  apis  mel.  to  six  ounces  of  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  In  a  bad  case  of  this 
disease  which  I  saw  in  consultation  during  an  epidemic 
the  child's  throat  was  of  a  very  dark  red  color;  mem- 
branes looked  like  washed  leather,  breath  very  offen- 
sive, body  felt  as  if  it  had  been  pounded,  nothing  but 
liquids  could  be  swallowed.  I  advised  baptisia  tinc- 
tora  as  the  remedy  needed.  The  prescription  reading, 

IJ     Tr.  Baptisia  tinctor,  gtts.  xxx. 
Aqua,  §vi. 

Mix.  Sig.  Gargle  the  throat  once  an  hour  and  give 
a  teaspoonful  of  the  mixture  internally  every  hour. 

While  it  seemed  doubtful  if  the  child  would  live  an- 
other day,  yet  in  twenty-four  hours  the  throat  had  a 
healthy  look  and  the  child  finally  recovered.  Tr.  eu- 
calyptus may  be  added  to  the  baptisia  in  these  malig- 
nant cases  and  it  makes  an  ideal  remedy.  The  more 
malignant,  the  more  putrid  the  case  the  greater  the 
need  of  these  remedies,  both  as  a  gargle  and  internally. 
In  another  case  where  I  was  the  consulting  physician, 
great  nervous  prostration  was  the  most  pronounced 
symptom,  very  foul  breath,  great  difficulty  in  swallow- 


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ing  anything,  throat  looked  purple  and  livid.  Lache- 
sis  was  the  remedy  indicated  and  we  put  ten  drops  of 
lachesis,  sixth  decimal  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and 
gave  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  In  a  few  hours 
we  could  see  a  change  for  the  better  and  the  patient 
got  well. 

In  cases  where  there  are  ulcers  in  the  mouth,  fauces 
covered  with  a  deposit,  secretions  acrid  and  excoriat- 
ing, glands  of  neck  swollen  and  painful,  Tr.  arum 
triphyllum  is  the  remedy  indicated.  The  prescription 
should  read: 

^     Tr.  Arum  triphyllum  gtts.  x. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Do  not  let  the  name  of  this  disease  frighten  you  but 
study  each  case  carefully  and  give  the  remedy  indi- 
cated. If  tempted  to  use  antitoxin,  remember  that  the 
fathers  of  the  Eclectic  school  of  medicine  made  their 
reputations  by  curing  such  diseases  as  diphtheria,  and 
it  would  be  casting  a  reflection  upon  that  school  of 
medicine  if  you  had  to  acknowledge  to  the  child's  par- 
ents that  you  did  not  know  how  to  cure  the  patient 
without  injecting  a  filthy  horse  serum  into  its  little  body. 
Then  when  the  child  dies  can  you  truthfully  tell  the 
parent  that  you  have  done  all  that  medical  science  can 
do  for  their  child?  Remember  there  are  lots  of  intel- 
ligent people  in  this  land  of  ours  and  you  "  can't  fool 
all  the  people  all  the  time." 

Pulmonary  Tuberculosis.  In  1900  this  disease  caused 
the  death  of  111,059  of  our  American  people.  Why  it 
is  on  the  increase  is  not  hard  to  determine  when  we 
realize  the  fact  that  underlying  all  the  other  symptoms, 


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and  the  very  foundation  of  the  disease,  is  a  weakened 
vitality  and  enfeebled  nerve  power. 

The  pulse  tells  us  that  when  we  read  it  intelligently, 
and  every  war  in  this  country,  every  great  disaster, 
financial  crisis,  or  epidemic  of  typhoid  fever,  diphtheria, 
pneumonia,  and  la  grippe  leaves  behind  them  a  trail 
of  weakened  vitality  that  furnish  recruits  to  the  great 
army  of  sufferers  from  consumption,  cancer  and 
Bright's  disease. 

When  we  understand  the  cause  of  this  disease  it  is 
not  difficult  to  devise  a  cure.  The  regular  school, 
from  Watson  down  to  Osier,  believed  and  taught  the 
idea  that  consumption  was  incurable.  The  people 
have  been  educated  to  believe  this,  hence  the  great  fear 
and  dread  of  the  name  consumption. 

On  the  other  hand  the  Eclectic  and  Homeopathic 
schools  of  medicine  have  had  good  success  in  the  treat- 
ment of  this  disease  for  nearly  one  hundred  years. 
That  it  is  hereditary  is  a  theory  not  borne  out  by 
facts.  My  mother  had  eight  brothers  and  sisters  die 
from  consumption  and  she,  herself,  had  all  the  symp- 
toms of  this  disease  and  was  considered  by  the  doctors 
past  cure ;  yet  she  went  to  Africa  as  a  missionary  for 
the  Society  of  Friends  and  when  she  reached  the  equa- 
tor began  to  feel  better.  She  lived  for  twenty  years 
afterward  and  never  showed  any  symptoms  of  this 
malady.  Neither  have  any  of  her  children  or  grand- 
children shown  any  symptoms  of  this  disease.  That  it 
is  contagious  is  a  myth,  too  foolish  to  think  of  for  a 
moment.  In  Maine,  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont, 
where  so  many  die  from  this  disease,  I  had  every  op- 
portunity to  study  the  disease  in  all  its  forms  for  sev- 
eral years.  I  have  seen  patients  that  sleep  in  the  same 


68  Definite  Medication 

bed  for  years  with  another  person,  yet  they  never  took 
the  disease  from  them.  All  this  talk  of  contagion  is 
simply  to  work  on  the  fears  of  the  public.  It  means 
more  graft  for  some  one. 

A  patient  came  to  me  a  few  years  ago  for  treatment. 
She  was  a  married  lady,  middle  age,  and  had  been 
having  children  too  fast ;  one  every  year  for  five  years. 
As  a  result  the  pulse  had  a  weak  discouraged  feeling 
to  it ;  hectic  fever,  night  sweats,  thoracic  pain,  a  hack- 
ing cough,  rapid  respiration  were  the  symptoms  which 
she  presented.  By  having  children  so  rapidly  she  had 
weakened  her  vitality  and  drawn  heavily  upon  her  re- 
serve force.  She  had  the  fear  of  consumption  but  a 
few  moments  of  cheerful,  hopeful  talk,  and  a  promise 
that  in  ten  days  she  would  see  an  improvement  in  all 
her  symptoms  caused  her  to  be  more  encouraged  and 
hopeful. 

For  the  weakened  vitality  I  gave  her  sulph.  strych- 
nine one-thirtieth  grain  before  each  meal  and  at  bed- 
time; for  the  night  sweats  she  had  two  grains  of  the 
third  decimal  picrotoxine  at  five,  seven  and  nine  in  the 
evening.  For  the  cough  and  raw  feeling  in  the  chest 
I  gave  her  kali  mur.,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal 
every  two  hours.  Three  times  a  week  she  was  told 
to  take  a  bath  all  over  of  Epsom  salts — one  ounce  of 
the  salts  to  a  pint  of  warm  water,  or  if  the  patient  had  a 
bath  tub  to  put  one  pound  of  the  salts  into  the  ordinary 
amount  of  water  used.  The  skin  should  be  well 
scrubbed  until  all  the  sticky,  gummy  substance  is  re- 
moved, leaving  the  skin  smooth  as  velvet.  In  a  week 
the  patient  came  to  report.  The  eye,  the  pulse,  the 
tongue,  all  showed  a  marked  improvement.  She  re- 
ported all  symptoms  more  favorable.  There  was  less 


Definite  Medication  69 

fever,  less  cough,  night  sweats  not  so  bad,  felt  stronger 
and  she  was  stronger.  The  treatment  was  continued 
with  the  addition  of  "  Cell  salts,"  two  drachms  to  water 
one  pint,  a  teaspoonful  being  given  with  every  dose  of 
strychnine.  The  patient  finally  regained  her  health. 

In  some  cases  when  there  is  indigestion  and  torpid 
liver,  I  like  this  prescription : 

I£     Fl.  Ext.  Euonymus. 

Fl.  Ext.  Ptelia  Trifoliata  a.  a.  giv. 
Comp.  Syr.  Hypophosphites,  §iv. 

Mix.  Sig.  Tablespoonful  four  times  a  day,  if  it  acts 
too  freely  upon  the  bowels,  lessen  the  dose. 

A  case  of  this  kind  came  to  me  from  one  of  the  large 
cities  of  New  Jersey  several  years  ago.  I  put  the  pa- 
tient upon  the  above  remedy,  giving  him  other  reme- 
dies to  meet  indications  as  they  arose.  There  was  no 
question  about  the  diagnosis,  as  other  physicians  had 
seen  the  case  and  all  diagnosed  it  as  tuberculosis.  He 
had  night  sweats,  fever,  tubercles  in  the  lungs,  emacia- 
tion, etc.,  but  he  recovered  under  my  treatment  and 
was  well  the  last  time  I  heard  from  him. 

When  the  cough  is  spasmodic,  worse  when  lying 
down,  I  like  the  following: 

^     Tr.  Drosera,  3x. 

Tr.  Veratrum  vir.,  3ii. 
Glycerine  q.  s.,  5ii. 

Mix.  Sig.     Twelve  drops  once  in  three  hours. 

When  there  is  a  copious  expectoration  of  muco-pur- 
ulent  mucus  in  the  second  stage  of  pulmonary  consump- 
tion myosotis  symphytifolia  is  indicated.  Dose.  Tr. 
myosotis  five  drops  once  in  two  hours.  I  have  seen 


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cases  of  advanced  tuberculosis,  with  hectic  fever,  night 
sweats,  swelling  of  the  feet  and  muco-purulent  expec- 
toration treated  successfully  with  baptisin.  Give  bap- 
tisin,  one-half  grain,  once  in  three  hours.  The  greater 
the  debility  and  the  more  advanced  the  disease  is,  the 
stronger  the  indication  for  baptisia. 

To  control  the  diarrhea,  the  following  prescription 
will  prove  efficacious. 

I£     Sub  nitrate  bismuth,  grs.  xx. 
Sulph.  quinine,  grs.  xvi. 
Pulverized  gum  arabic,  grs.  xxx. 

Mix.  Divide  into  twenty  powders.  Sig.  One 
powder  once  in  five  hours.  When  there  is  a  loose, 
racking,  suffocating  cough,  with  copious  expectora- 
tions of  thick,  yellowish  or  greenish  mucus,  silicea  is 
the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal 
every  two  hours. 

For  a  local  application  to  the  throat,  a  compress  of 
Epsom  salts  and  warm  water  (one  ounce  to  the  pint) 
should  be  constantly  worn  around  the  throat.  It  will 
do  much  to  allay  the  irritation  in  the  throat  and  re- 
lieve the  cough.  For  the  night  sweats  picrotoxine 
third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Give  two  grains  at  five, 
seven  and  nine  at  night.  For  hemoptysis,  when  there 
is  slight  hemorrhage  of  bright  red  blood,  epistaxis, 
headache,  ferri  phos.  third  decimal  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  five  grains  in  a  glass  of  water,  teaspoonful  once 
an  hour.  In  hemorrhage  from  injury  or  over  exertion, 
bright  red  blood — as  from  a  wound,  millefolium  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  Tr.  millefolium  ten  drops  in  a  little 
water,  once  an  hour  until  relieved. 

Anodynes,  coal  tar  products,  in  fact  any  remedy  that 


Definite  Medication  71 

weakens  the  vitality  of  your  patient  must  not  be  given 
in  this  disease.  How  can  you  raise  the  vitality  of  your 
patients  when  you  are  dosing  them  with  anodynes  to 
pull  down  the  vitality. 

The  "  Cell  salts,"  as  prepared  by  Dr.  Burgess,  Chat- 
tanooga, Tenn.,  should  be  given  the  patient  because 
they  supply  nutrient  to  the  cells  that  are  starving  for 
nourishment. 

I  have  had  more  cases  of  this  disease  to  treat  in  my 
time  than  usually  falls  to  the  lot  of  the  average  phy- 
sician of  my  age,  and  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  con- 
sumption can  be  cured.  I  have  cured  my  cases  without 
any  cod  liver  oil,  whiskey  and  quinine,  stuffing  them 
with  food  until  their  stomachs  rebel  against  all  food, 
making  them  sleep  on  the  roof  of  the  house,  out  of 
doors  in  a  tent,  or  any  other  freak  practice.  It  is  cruel 
and  heartless  to  quarantine  such  cases  or  send  them 
among  strangers  to  die. 

Hay  Fever.  When  there  is  violent  spasmodic  sneez- 
ing and  lachrymation,  a  burning  watery  discharge 
from  the  nose  and  eyes  sabadilla  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
Tr.  sabadilla  five  drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water,  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  When  there  is  itching  of  the 
nose  and  eyes,  profuse  acrid  watery  discharges  from 
the  nose  and  eyes,  nose  feels  stopped  up,  alium  cepa 
is  the  remedy.  Dose,  Tr.  alium  twenty  drops  in  four 
ounces  of  water,  teaspoonful  every  hour. 


CHAPTER  IV 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE   HEART 
Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication  75 


CHAPTER  IV 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES   FOR   THE    HEART 

PERICARDITIS.    For  the  acute  pain  in  the  heart, 
restlessness,  fever,  full,  bounding  pulse,  aconite 
is  the  remedy.     We  will  frequently  need  to  com- 
bine it  with  that  grand  diaphoretic  asclepias  tuberosa, 
for  it  is  quite  as  often  indicated  in  this  disease  as  in 
acute  pleurisy.     The  prescription  should  read  : 

I£     Tr.  Aconite,  gtts.  v. 
Tr.  Asclepias,  tub.  §i. 
Aqua,  gv. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Apply  a  warm  flaxseed  poultice  over  the  heart.  It 
feels  good  and  helps  to  allay  the  inflammation.  If 
there  are  stitching  pains,  made  worse  by  motion,  re- 
lieved by  lying  on  the  affected  side,  bryonia  is  the  rem- 
edy. Dose,  tincture  bryonia,  gtts.  v,  aqua,  four  ounces ; 
mix,  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  From  the 
very  beginning  of  your  treatment  give  kali  mur.  third 
decimal.  Add  ten  grains  to  a  cup  of  warm  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  once  an  hour.  This 
remedy  will  often  prevent  effusion  and  it  is  the  remedy 
for  the  absorption  of  exudates. 

When  the  pain  is  very  severe,  shooting  into  the  arm 
and  neck,  stitching  pain  in  the  left  breast,  dyspnea, 
patient  can  only  lie  on  the  right  side,  palpitation  of 
heart,  and  the  least  movement  produces  a  feeling  of 
suffocation,  spigelia  is  the  remedy  needed.  Add  fif- 


76  Definite  Medication 

teen  drops  tincture  spigelia  to  four  ounces  of  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  When  complicated 
with  rheumatism  give  three  drop  doses  of  tincture 
cimicifuga  once  in  two  hours.  When  cimicifuga  is 
used  as  the  principal  remedy  in  acute  rheumatism 
there  is  seldom  any  heart  complications.  This  fact 
should  be  remembered  by  all  physicians. 

When  the  acute  stage  has  passed  the  kali  mur.,  third 
decimal,  is  to  be  continued.  The  following  prescrip- 
tion will  aid  in  removing  the  effusion : 

3     Fl.  Ext.  Jaborandi,  3i. 
Simple  Syrup,  £iv. 

Mig.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours  until  pro- 
fuse perspiration  is  produced. 

The  following  diuretic  and  alterative  mixture  has 
rendered  me  good  service  in  many  cases : 

^     Tr.  Phytolacca,  3ii. 
Iodide  Potash,  3ii. 
Syr.  Marshmallow,  §vi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours. 

Sulph.  strychnine,  one-thirtieth  grain,  should  be 
given  before  each  meal  and  at  bedtime  to  keep  up  the 
vitality  of  the  patient. 

Hydropericardium.  When  there  is  a  very  slow  pulse, 
skin  apt  to,be  of  a  bluish  color,  especially  the  eyelids, 
lips,  tongue  and  nails,  cyanosis,  more  pronounced  when 
moving  about,  every  third  or  fifth  beat  patient  thinks 
the  heart  will  stop  beating.  For  this  condition  digi- 
talis is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  in  a  little  water 
once  in  three  hours.  When  I  prescribe  digitalis  in 
dropsy  I  always  add  about  ten  to  twenty  grains  of 


Definite  Medication  77 

cream  tartar  to  an  ounce  of  water,  stir  it  up  and  then 
add  the  five  drops  of  tincture  digitalis.  In  my  own 
experience,  I  have  found  that  it  increases  the  diuretic 
action  of  the  digitalis.  I  have  often  increased  the  dose, 
one  drop  a  day  until  the  patient  was  taking  ten  or 
twelve  drops  of  the  digitalis  at  a  dose. 

When  the  difficulty  in  breathing  is  so  great  that  the 
patient  cannot  lie  down,  puffiness  of  the  hands  and  feet 
and  also  under  the  eyes,  very  thirsty,  but  water  dis- 
agrees, sensation  of  sinking  at  the  heart  and  pit  of  the 
stomach,  urine  scanty,  dark  colored,  skin  distended 
and  glistening,  bowels  constipated,  pulse  slow,  apocy- 
num  cannabinum  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  once 
in  three  hours.  When  the  effusion  is  dependent  upon 
the  inability  of  the  heart  to  carry  on  the  circulation  of 
the  blood,  there  is  edema  of  the  ankles,  heart's  action 
rapid,  pulse  feeble,  soreness  in  the  uterine  region,  pal- 
pitation of  the  heart,  tincture  convallaria  maj.  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  once  in  three  hours. 

When  the  lower  eyelids  hang  down  like  bags,  there 
is  dropsy  with  absence  of  thirst,  sensation  as  if  every 
breath  would  be  the  last,  skin  very  tender,  sensitive  to 
the  touch,  apis  mel.  is  the  remedy.  Prescribe  it  as  fol- 
lows: 

I£     Tr.  Apis  mel.,  gtts.  x. 
Aqua,  §iv. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

I  was  called  to  see  a  case  of  dropsy  of  the  heart,  the 
kind  that  used  to  be  called  "  Water  round  the  Heart." 
It  was  a  bad  case,  given  up  to  die  by  her  former  phy- 
sician. The  patient  was  a  middle  aged  lady;  she  sat 
propped  up  in  bed,  as  she  could  not  lie  down ;  ausculta- 


78  Definite  Medication 

tion  did  not  reveal  any  heart  sounds ;  the  heart  seemed 
to  be  drowned  in  water.  There  was  dyspnea  and  a 
very  weak  pulse.  She  seemed  to  me  very  near  the  end 
of  life.  I  did  not  think  I  could  do  her  much  good,  but 
as  the  family  were  anxious  for  me  to  do  something  I 
thought  I  would  give  her  a  little  medicine  to  make  her 
easier,  for  it  did  not  seem  to  me  that  she  could  live 
until  morning.  I  called  for  a  glass,  a  spoon  and  a  little 
water.  I  counted  out  sixteen  teaspoonfuls  of  water 
into  the  glass,  into  which  I  put  one  grain  of  morphine 
and  ordered  a  teaspoonful  of  the  mixture  to  be  given 
every  fifteen  minutes,  until  she  was  easier  or  slept. 
This  is  the  way  I  prescribe  morphine  when  I  am  forced 
to  use  it,  which  is  very  seldom.  In  my  forty  years  of 
practice,  I  have  not  used  a  half  drachm  of  morphine 
altogether.  As  I  left  the  patient  to  return  home  the 
family  wished  me  to  call  and  see  her  the  next  morning, 
but  for  me  I  thought  it  would  be  a  case  of 

"  Ring  the  bell  softly 
There's  crape  on  the  door." 

Upon  visiting  the  patient  the  next  day,  I  was  met  at 
the  door  by  the  husband  with  the  report  "  the  patient 
was  better."  I  found  that  after  she  had  taken  two  or 
three  doses  of  the  morphine  mixture  that  the  water 
began  to  pass  off  freely.  Thus  it  was  she  got  the  pri- 
mary stimulating  effect  of  the  morphine.  I  then  gave 
her  tincture  digitalis  as  described  above  until  I  had  re- 
moved all  the  water. 

While  it  may  be  comparatively  easy  to  remove  the 
dropsical  effusion,  yet  it  is  not  so  easy  to  prevent  its 
returning.  To  effect  a  radical  cure  we  must  enrich  the 
blood  after  removing  the  serum.  Iron  and  helonias  are 


Definite  Medication  79 

the  remedies  that  we  will  depend  upon  for  this  pur- 
pose. Give  three  tablets  of  the  first  decimal  of  ferrum 
every  three  hours  and  alternate  with  it  three  tablets  of 
the  first  decimal  of  helonias  every  three  hours. 

Another  case  which  I  saw  of  "  water  round  the 
heart "  was  a  lady  who  had  been  sick  for  some  time. 
Different  doctors  had  treated  her,  but  she  was  growing 
worse  rapidly.  It  was  very  difficult  for  me  to  detect 
any  heart  sounds,  and  the  heart  seemed  nearly  drowned 
in  the  water.  She  could  not  lie  on  the  pillow ;  had  her 
head  raised  up.  Her  feet  and  legs  were  badly  swollen. 
It  was  a  desperate  case  but  I  determined  to  do  what  I 
could  for  her  relief.  I  explained  to  the  family  that  I 
proposed  to  remove  the  dropsical  effusion.  I  had  a 
woman  used  to  nursing  stay  all  night  with  her.  I  then 
prescribed  the  following: 

^     Podophyllin,  gr.  i. 
Leptandrin,  grs.  ii. 
Capsicum,  grs.  J4. 
Cream  tartar,  grs.  xx. 

Triturate  them  well  together  for  one  powder.  Sig. 
Give  one  powder  like  this  in  a  little  sweetened  water 
once  in  three  hours  until  they  began  to  operate  freely 
on  the  bowels,  then  stop  them.  I  instructed  the  nurse 
that  the  water  would  commence  to  run  off  before 
morning  and  that  if  the  patient  was  faint  to  give  her  a 
little  whiskey  and  aromatic  spirits  of  ammonia  (one 
drachm)  in  water.  The  next  day  I  visited  my  patient 
and  found  her  decidedly  better.  During  the  night  the 
water  began  to  pass  off  and  at  one  time  the  patient  said 
she  felt  as  if  "all  the  flesh  was  leaving  her  body."  I 
gave  this  patient  tincture  digitalis  for  a  little  while, 


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then  the  ferrum  and  helonias  as  given  above  and  she 
recovered  entirely.  I  have  had  many  cases  of  this 
kind  in  my  practice  and  frequently  have  taken  desper- 
ate chances,  as  in  such  cases  what  is  done  must  be 
done  quickly  and  a  cure  of  such  a  case  will  often  make 
a  doctor's  reputation.  We  never  know  what  we  can 
do  for  the  sick  until  we  try. 

Endocarditis.  When  this  condition  is  complicated 
with  rheumatism,  headache  in  the  forehead  or  top  of 
the  head,  pain  under  the  left  nipple,  and  down  the  left 
arm,  cimicifuga  is  the  remedy.  Put  twenty  drops  of 
tincture  cimicifuga  into  four  ounces  of  water  and  give 
in  teaspoonful  doses  every  hour.  When  the  pulse  is 
full  with  hardness  and  tension,  great  muscular  excite- 
ment, veratrum  viride  is  the  remedy  indicated.  Dose, 
tincture  veratrum  gtts.  x,  aqua  §iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  A  full,  bounding  pulse,  with 
fever,  great  restlessness,  sharp  cutting  pain  in  the  left 
side  calls  for  aconite  rad.  Dose,  tincture  aconite  gtts. 
v,  aqua  £iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  an  hour 
Kali  mur.,  third  decimal,  should  be  given  from  the 
very  start  for  that  condition  which  favors  embolus 
which  acts  as  a  plug.  Place  ten  grains  of  it  in  a  cup  of 
water  and  give  in  teaspoonful  doses  every  half  hour. 

When  there  is  severe  pain  in  the  left  side,  palpita- 
tion, violent  and  visible  blowing  sound  at  the  apex 
of  the  heart,  spigelia  is  the  remedy  indicated.  Dose, 
tincture  spigelia,  five  drops  every  two  hours. 

Cramp-like  pain  in  the  heart,  a  feeling  as  if  a  great 
stone  lay  on  the  heart,  calls  for  cereus  bonplandi.  Add 
twenty  drops  of  tincture  cereus  to  a  glass  of  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour  until  the  pain  is 
relieved.  As  a  preventive  against  future  attacks  of 


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this  difficulty  give  the  third  decimal  calcarea  flouride, 
three  grains  three  times  a  day. 

Myocarditis.  When  there  is  palpitation  of  the  heart, 
vertigo,  and  choking  in  the  throat  and  severe  stitching 
pains  in  the  cardiac  region  iberis  is  the  remedy  indi- 
cated. Dose,  tincture  iberis,  gtts.  xx ;  aqua,  §iv.  Mix 
Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  hour.  To  encourage  absorp- 
tion of  plastic  exudates  and  emboli  kali  mur.  is  the 
remedy.  Add  ten  grains  of  the  third  decimal  to  a 
glass  of  water,  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 
Calcarea  flouride,  third  decimal,  three  tablets  three 
times  a  day,  is  valuable  in  the  chronic  form  to  correct 
the  tendency  toward  fibroid  degeneration  about  the 
heart. 

When  there  is  great  difficulty  of  breathing,  palpita- 
tion, rush  of  the  blood  to  the  head,  cratsegus  oxyacan- 
tha  is  indicated.  Dose,  ten  drops  tincture  crataegus 
once  in  three  hours.  The  best  local  application  over 
the  region  of  the  heart  in  deep  settled  inflammation  of 
that  organ  is  the  compound  tar  plaster  (irritating  plas- 
ter). Apply  one  already  spread  (Merrill's).  It  will 
start  up  counter  irritation  over  the  region  of  the  heart, 
relieve  the  pain  and  check  the  progress  of  the  disease. 
It  has  helped  me  many  a  time  to  make  a  decided  im- 
pression on  the  case  by  relieving  the  most  urgent 
symptoms. 

Hypertrophy  of  the  Heart.  When  we  realize  the  fact 
that  hypertrophy  or  enlargement  of  the  heart  is  really 
a  chronic  obstruction  with  nerve  tension,  it  gives  us 
the  key  to  the  first  remedy,  veratrum  viride,  to  release 
the  nerve  tension  and  gradually  remove  the  obstruc- 
tion of  the  capillaries.  Give  tincture  veratrum,  first 
decimal,  five  drops  every  hour  for  three  hours  and  then 


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every  three  hours.  You  will  notice  less  tension  and  a 
pulse  which  becomes  more  regular  and  stronger. 
When,  from  violent  exercise,  the  heart  has  been 
strained,  arnica  third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
five  drops  once  in  two  hours.  If  caused  by  excessive 
use  of  tobacco  cactus  grandiflorus  is  the  remedy — the 
heart  feels  as  if  it  did  not  have  room  to  beat,  as  if  held 
by  an  iron  band.  Dose,  tincture  cactus  grand.  3ss, 
aqua  §iv.  Mix.  Sig.  One  teaspoonful  once  in  two 
hours. 

When  there  is  a  feeling  of  great  oppression  in  the 
region  of  the  heart,  palpitation,  dyspnea,  constricting 
pains  and  tenderness  round  the  heart,  lycopus  virg.  is 
the  remedy.  Add  twenty  drops  of  tincture  lycopus  to 
a  glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two 
hours.  If  from  valvular  insufficiency  give  tincture 
collinsonia  ten  drops  once  in  four  hours.  If  compli- 
cated with  chronic  rheumatism  give  wine  of  colchicum 
five  drops  three  times  a  day. 

Dilatation  of  the  Heart.  Cratsegus  is  the  first  remedy 
to  be  thought  of  in  dilatation  of  the  heart.  When  the 
first  sound  is  absent,  weak  or  prolonged,  or  misplaced 
by  a  murmur,  the  pulse  being  fast,  often  intermittent 
and  irregular,  you  should  give  tincture  crataegus,  ten 
drops  once  in  three  hours.  When  there  is  weakness, 
irregularity  of  beat,  fluttering,  palpitation,  with  feeling 
as  if  the  heart  would  stop  beating,  phaseolus  panus  is 
the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  ninth  decimal 
every  twenty  minutes  until  relieved.  When  the  pulse 
is  slow,  great  weakness,  blueness  of  skin,  especially  of 
eyelids,  lips,  tongue  and  nails,  pulse  irregular  and  in- 
termittent, digitalis  is  the  remedy.  Give  the  second 
decimal  dilution,  ten  drops  once  in  two  hours. 


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When  caused  by  grief,  worry,  long  drawn  sighs, 
sobbing,  ignatia  is  the  remedy.  Tincture  ignatia  gtts. 
x,  aqua  §iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 
When  the  right  side  is  dilated  collinsonia  is  indicated. 
Dose,  tincture  collinsonia  five  drops  once  in  three 
hours. 

Fatty  Heart.  When  the  pulse  shows  a  weak  discour- 
aged feeling,  loss  of  nerve  power,  give  sulph.  strych- 
nine one-thirtieth  grain  before  each  meal  and  at  bed- 
time. In  anemic  patients,  complicated  with  diabetes 
or  chronic  rheumatism,  vanadium  will  increase  the  ap- 
petite and  strengthen  the  heart's  action.  Dose.  Three 
tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  three  times  a  day.  When 
there  is  a  shortness  of  breath,  pain  in  the  right  arm, 
with  obesity,  I  have  used  saturated  tincture  of  phy- 
tolacca  berries  (phytoline)  ten  drops  before  and  after 
meals  three  times  a  day.  I  have  treated  patients  who 
took  on  flesh  so  rapidly  that  they  could  hardly  walk 
across  the  floor  because  of  the  difficulty  in  breathing 
thus  produced.  In  a  few  days  by  taking  the  above 
remedy  the  flesh  would  be  reduced  and  breathing  be- 
come more  natural.  I  believe  it  is  the  remedy  needed 
for  a  "  fatty  heart." 

A  "Heart  Remedy!'  I  have  used  the  following  pre- 
scription for  forty  years  in  all  heart  difficulties  where 
there  was  pain,  palpitation  and  shortness  of  breath.  It 
has  done  me  good  service. 

^     Tr.  Castor. 
Tr.  Opium. 
Sulph.  Ether. 
Spts.  Turpentine. 
Aomat.  Spts.  Ammonia,  a.  a.  £ss. 


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Mix.  Sig.  One  teaspoonful  in  one-third  cup  of  water 
once  in  half  an  hour  until  relieved.  One  or  two  doses 
is  generally  sufficient.  This  remedy  has  helped  me 
often  in  times  of  trouble.  It  is  the  remedy  for  palpita- 
tion of  the  heart.  The  more  severe  the  pain  in  the 
heart  the  stronger  is  the  indication  for  this  remedy. 
It  will  relieve  the  pain.  I  was  called  to  see  a  case  where 
a  man  was  suffering  severe  pain  in  his  heart.  The 
pain  was  so  intense  that  it  seemed  as  if  he  could  not 
live  very  long.  I  diagnosed  the  difficulty  as  neuralgia 
of  the  heart.  One  or  two  doses  of  this  medicine  gave 
him  quick  relief,  so  much  so  that  he  left  for  his  home 
in  Brooklyn  that  night.  Another  similar  case  was  a 
man  who  kept  a  summer  hotel  on  Ipswich  Bay,  Mass. 
He  had  been  treated  by  several  physicians  without  re- 
lief. I  diagnosed  the  case  as  enlargement  of  the  heart. 
There  was  pain,  palpitation  and  dyspnea.  At  times  he 
would  become  unconscious.  I  gave  him  the  above 
"  heart  remedy  "  as  directed ;  also  collinsonia,  the  first 
decimal,  three  grains  four  times  a  day.  This  patient 
recovered  completely  and  was  city  marshal  in  one  of 
the  Massachusetts  cities  for  some  time.  He  lived  for 
twenty  years  and  finally  died  of  pneumonia. 

I  have  met  with  many  cases  of  so-called  "  heart  dis- 
ease "  in  my  practice.  The  physicians  in  attendance 
had  told  the  patients  that  they  were  liable  to  drop  dead 
any  moment.  I  have  treated  such  cases  and  cured 
them.  Any  form  of  heart  disease  can  be  cured  except 
certain  forms  of  organic  disease. 

Women  will  frequently  come  to  me  with  palpitation, 
a  little  shortness  of  breath,  a  little  pain  in  or  around 
the  heart.  There  is  no  real  disease  of  the  heart ;  they 


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are  mostly  neurasthenics.     The  following  prescription 
has  cured  very  many  such  cases : 

^     Tr.  Cimicifuga. 
Tr.  Gelsemium. 
Tr.  Pulsatilla,  a.  a.  gtts.  xx. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

Angina  Pectoris.  When  there  is  pain  with  tightness 
and  constriction  of  the  chest,  tincture  lobelia  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  twenty  drops  every  half  hour  until  re- 
lieved. 

When  there  is  violent  palpitation,  shaking  the  whole 
chest,  severe  substernal  pain  radiating  to  the  neck  and 
arms,  irregular  pulse  with  tendency  to  syncope,  palpi- 
tation, worse  by  the  least  movement  tincture  spigelia 
fifteen  drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water  is  the  indicated 
remedy.  Dose,  teaspoonful  every  half  hour. 

Cratsegus  is  indicated  when  there  is  sudden  and  ter- 
rible pain  in  the  left  breast,  pain  radiating  over  the 
heart  and  down  the  left  arm,  patient  is  despondent, 
fearful  of  death.  In  such  cases  prescribe  tincture  cra- 
tsegus  fifteen  drops  in  a  wine-glass  of  water.  Repeat 
the  dose  in  half  an  hour. 

When  the  patient  is  pale,  pulse  small,  wiry,  anemia 
of  the  brain,  glonoin  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose, 
two  J/^5o  grain  granules  should  be  given  once  in  fifteen 
minutes  in  a  teaspoonful  of  water  until  the  face  is 
flushed  and  there  is  fullness  of  the  head.  My  "  heart 
remedy  "  is  the  medicine  which  I  have  depended  upon 
in  such  cases  (see  Fatty  Heart). 

Exophthalmic  Goitre.  When  there  is  a  tumultuous 
action  of  the  heart,  eyes  prominent,  dyspnea,  and  op- 


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pression  of  the  chest  lycopus  virg.  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  tincture  lycopus  virg.  fifteen  drops  three  times  a 
day. 

Tincture  fucus  vesiculosis  has  cured  cases  of  this 
disease.  Be  careful  that  you  procure  a  reliable  tincture. 
If  it  is  a  recent  case  give  thirty  drops  of  tincture  fucus 
three  times  a  day  after  each  meal  in  two  tablespoonfuls 
of  water.  If  the  case  is  chronic  give  one  teaspoonful 
of  the  tincture  three  times  a  day,  after  each  meal. 
Apply  tincture  iodine  and  tincture  phytolacca,  equal 
parts,  locally — by  painting  the  enlarged  growth — night 
and  morning. 

Weak  Heart.  The  best  remedies  are  digitalin  and 
ferrum  given  in  alternation  as  follows :  Digitalin,  third 
decimal,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours ;  ferrum,  first 
decimal,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  In  those 
cases  of  rapid  heart  failure  in  pneumonia  and  typhoid 
fever,  prescribe  caffeine,  two  grains,  every  two  hours. 
By  the  use  of  this  remedy  I  have  restored  the  force 
and  rhythm  of  the  heart  in  a  short  time.  Phaseolus 
nanus  is  also  indicated  in  a  weak  heart,  when  the  pulse 
is  scarcely  perceptible  and  is  irregular.  Give  three 
tablets  of  the  ninth  decimal  once  in  twenty  minutes 
until  the  heart  beats  strongly  again.  Glonoin  is  a 
quick  stimulant  to  the  heart  in  cases  of  faintness,  wiry 
pulse  and  pale  face.  Dose,  two  ^so  grain  granules  in 
a  teaspoonful  of  hot  water  once  in  fifteen  minutes  until 
the  beat  becomes  strong  and  regular.  In  a  "  crisis  " 
when  the  vitality  is  low  and  the  system  fails  to  respond 
to  the  tonic  action  of  your  remedies  give  two  granules 
of  glonoin  %so  grain  once  in  three  hours. 

Valvular  Disease  of  the  Heart.  Calcarea  flouride,  third 
decimal  is  the  remedy  to  arrest  early  stages  of  valvular 


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disease,  and  restore  normal  action  of  the  valvular 
structures.  It  removes  the  fibroid  deposit  about  the 
endocardium.  Dose,  fifteen  grains  in  a  glass  of  water 
and  given  in  teaspoonful  doses,  of  this  mixture,  hourly. 
When  the  patient  awakes  from  a  sound  sleep,  from  a 
sense  of  suffocation,  with  a  violent  hard  cough  and 
difficult  respiration  spongia  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  once  an  hour. 

Dyspnea.  This  is  a  very  troublesome  symptom. 
For  its  relief  I  have  used  the  following  prescription 
with  much  benefit: 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Quebracho,  §i. 
Simple  Syrup,  § 


Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

When  there  is  a  dry  annoying  cough,  pulse  low, 
weak,  irregular,  as  found  in  the  acute  stage,  naja  tripu- 
diant  is  the  remedy  needed.  Dose,  three  tablets,  sixth 
decimal,  once  in  two  hours.  When  there  is  failing 
compensation,  urine  scanty,  great  dyspnea,  pulse  ir- 
regular, headache  extending  from  occiput  around  the 
temple,  across  the  forehead  to  the  eyes,  adonis  vernalis 
is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  tincture  adonis  five 
drops  three  times  a  day.  Crataegus  should  be  remem- 
bered here  when  the  patient  is  gloomy,  despondent, 
face  pale,  rush  of  blood  to  the  head  with  much  dyspnea. 
Dose,  ten  drops  once  in  ten  hours. 

Arterio  Sclerosis.  Calcarea  flouride,  third  decimal,  is 
one  of  your  best  remedies  in  this  condition.  Three 
grains  of  this  drug  once  in  three  hours.  For  the  ob- 
struction in  the  capillaries  veratrum  viride  is  indicated. 
Dose,  five  drops  of  the  first  decimal  dilution  three 
times  a  day  to  relax  the  capillaries.  For  the  weak  dis- 


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couraged  pulse,  give  one-thirtieth  grain  sulph.  strych- 
nine before  each  meal  and  at  bedtime.  When  there  is 
vertigo,  a  tremulous  feeling,  the  heart  is  enlarged,  its 
action  irregular,  the  pulse  has  a  shotty  feeling,  with 
some  pain  in  the  region  of  the  heart,  iodide  arsenic  is 
the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal 
once  in  two  hours. 

For  the  calcification  of  the  arteries  phosphoric  acid 
dilute  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  twenty  drops  in  half  a 
glass  of  water,  teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours. 

Palpitation  of  the  Heart.  In  nervous  hysterical 
women,  we  may  have  palpitation  and  copious  urina- 
tion. In  this  condition  moschus  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
five  drops  of  the  second  decimal  dilution  every  two 
hours. 

In  palpitation  which  is  brought  on  by  excessive  tea 
drinking,  china  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  tincture  china 
(cinchona)  twenty  drops  in  four  ounces  of  water;  of 
this  mixture  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours.  In 
palpitation  of  the  heart  from  sexual  excesses  phos- 
phoric acid  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  add  fifteen  drops  of 
the  third  decimal  to  a  half  glass  of  water  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours.  Palpitation  from  vio- 
lent emotions,  grief  or  worry,  palpitation  from  the 
slightest  exertion,  kali  phos.,  third  decimal,  is  the  rem- 
edy needed.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours. 

Diaphragmitis.  Cactus  grandiflorus  is  indicated 
when  there  is  a  feeling  of  constriction  in  the  region  of 
the  diaphragm  with  sharp  shooting  pains.  Add  one 
drachm  tincture  cactus  to  four  ounces  of  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours. 

Hiccough.  Magnesia  phos.,  third  decimal,  is  a  good 
remedy  for  this  condition  and  will  cure  most  cases. 


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Place  ten  grains  in  a  cup  of  hot  water  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  few  minutes  until  relieved.  A  lump  of 
sugar  wet  with  vinegar  placed  in  the  mouth  and  al- 
lowed to  dissolve  will  often  give  relief.  In  one  case 
of  an  old  lady  to  whom  I  was  called  I  gave  one  grain 
sulph.  morphia  in  sixteen  teaspoonfuls  of  water,  and 
directed  a  teaspoonful  of  the  mixture  to  be  given  every 
fifteen  minutes  until  relieved.  It  cured  her.  Tincture 
caulophyllum,  ten  drops  once  in  a  half  hour  is  a  good 
remedy.  It  may  be  given  to  children  with  safety. 


CHAPTER  V 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  THE  STOMACH   AND  INTESTINAL 
CANAL 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  V 

SPECIAL    REMEDIES    FOR   THE    STOMACH    AND    INTESTINAL 
CANAL 

IN  STOMATITIS  I  give  ferri  phos.,  third  decimal 
trituration,  five  grains,  with  kali  mur.  third  decimal 
trituration,  five  grains,  in  a  cup  of  hot  water. 
Dose,  two  teaspoonfuls  every  half  hour. 

In  aphthea  I  give  for  babies  subnitrate  bismuth,  sec- 
ond decimal  trituration,  one  grain  in  a  little  water  once 
an  hour.  If  the  mouth  and  gums  are  tender,  saliva 
fetid  and  purulent,  tongue  coated,  and  ulcers  on  the 
mucous  membrane,  kali  mur.  is  indicated.  Put  five 
grains  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  in  a  glass  of 
water  and  give  in  teaspoonful  doses  every  half  hour. 
Apply  solution  of  boro-glycerine  locally  to  the  sores  in 
the  mouth. 

For  ulcers  in  the  mouth  I  have  always  depended 
upon  chlorate  potash,  one-half  drachm,  and  sulphate 
zinc,  five  grains  in  a  goblet  of  warm  water.  I  use  this 
solution  as  a  gargle  and  have  the  patient  rinse  out  the 
mouth  with  it  once  an  hour. 

In  glossitis,  when  there  is  a  chill,  burning  and 
tingling  sensation  along  the  dorsum  of  the  tongue,  and 
it  is  swollen,  dry,  and  red,  great  dryness  of  the  mouth, 
everything  tastes  bitter,  aconite  is  the  remedy.  Add 
five  drops  specific  medicine  aconite  to  four  ounces  of 
water  and  give  a  drachm  every  hour. 

In  dyspepsia  when  there  is  a  lack  of  gastric  juice, 
especially  in  old  persons,  with  a  heavy,  sleepy  feeling 


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after  meals,  flatulence,  diarrhea  alternated  with  con- 
stipation, alnus  rubra  is  the  remedy.  It  will  increase 
the  gastric  secretion  and  aid  digestion.  Alunin,  first 
decimal  trituration,  three  grains  one-half  hour  before 
each  meal.  In  dyspepsia  with  excessive  acidity  in  the 
stomach,  eructations  of  sour  fluid  that  sets  the  teeth 
on  edge,  pain  in  the  stomach,  worse  when  empty,  and 
relieved  by  taking  food,  you  should  prescribe  tincture 
robinia  pseud.,  giving  five  drops  before  each  meal. 
When  after  eating  the  mind  is  dull,  epigastrium 
bloated  with  pressure,  like  a  stone  in  the  stomach,  sour 
taste,  pyrosis,  tightness  about  the  waist,  the  patient  is 
obliged  to  loosen  the  clothing,  nux  vomica  is  the  rem- 
edy indicated.  Give  nux  vomica,  third  decimal  tritu- 
ration, three  tablets  after  each  meal  and  at  bedtime. 
In  dyspepsia,  where  the  indigestion  is  dependent  upon 
a  feeble  condition  of  the  muscles,  mucous  membrane 
and  glands  of  the  stomach,  chelone  glabra  is  the  rem- 
edy. Give  three  tablets  of  the  second  decimal  tritura- 
tion once  in  three  hours.  In  indigestion  with  large 
quantity  of  gas  in  the  stomach,  and  bowels  are  badly 
bloated,  the  patient  feels  hungry,  but  a  few  mouthfuls 
"  fill  him  up,"  belching  does  not  bring  relief,  rumbling 
of  gas  in  the  bowels,  feels  sleepy  after  eating.  In  such 
cases  you  can  prescribe  lycopodium  with  great  confi- 
dence. Give  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  tritura- 
tion once  in  two  hours.  Dyspepsia  is  our  national 
disease.  Americans  eat  too  fast  and  too  much,  drink 
too  much  tea,  that  weakens  the  nerves  and  coats  of 
the  stomach.  You  cannot  cure  any  form  of  indiges- 
tion if  the  patient  will  persist  in  tea  drinking.  Coffee 
should  be  cut  out  of  the  diet  if  it  makes  the  patient 
feel  sleepy  or  drowsy  after  drinking  it. 


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Since  I  began  the  practice  of  medicine  I  have  had 
one  remedy  that  I  depended  upon  more  than  any  other, 
and  have  prescribed  it  for  many  patients  in  different 
parts  of  the  country.  I  have  never  known  it  to  fail  to 
do  the  patient  good.  It  is  the  best  combination  for 
dyspepsia. 

1$     Pepsin  (pure),  31. 

Subnitrate  bismuth,  31. 
Tr.  nux  vomica,  3ss. 
Comp.  tr.  Gentian,  §vii. 

Mix.  Sig.  One  teaspoonful  after  meals  in  a  little 
water  (shake  well). 

In  acute  gastritis  when  there  is  intense  thirst,  dry, 
hot  skin,  great  restlessness,  tossing  about  in  agony — 
a  burning  thirst  for  large  quantities  of  water,  aconite 
is  the  remedy.  Prescribe  twenty  drops  of  the  third 
decimal  dilution  in  a  half  glass  of  water,  giving  one 
teaspoonful  every  hour.  When  there  is  great  irrita- 
bility of  the  stomach,  patients  call  for  cold  drinks,  but 
vomit  them  soon  after  drinking;  the  stomach  becomes 
full,  the  tongue  is  coated  white,  a  sensation  of  a  load 
in  the  stomach,  a  sweetish  or  metallic  taste  in  the 
mouth ;  there  is  often  a  painless  diarrhea,  and  frequent 
micturition.  In  this  condition  subnitrate  of  bismuth 
is  the  remedy.  Give  five  grains  of  the  second  decimal 
trituration  every  two  hours.  Ice  pounded  up  in  small 
pieces  and  fed  to  the  patient  will  do  much  to  allay  the 
fever  in  the  stomach. 

In  chronic  gastritis  argentum  nitricum  is  the  remedy 
when  there  is  distress  and  tenderness  in  the  epigas- 
trium, flatulence,  and  vomiting  large  quantities  of  ropy 
mucus.  Give  five  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  tritura- 


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tion  once  in  two  hours.  In  many  cases  of  the  chronic 
form  of  this  disease,  when  the  patient  complains  of  a 
burning  sensation  in  the  stomach,  I  give  Fowler's  so- 
lution of  arsenic,  two  drops  after  each  meal.  In  stub- 
born cases  I  have  had  good  success  with  the  following : 

^     Flu.  ext.  nux  vomica,  3ss. 
Lloyd's  liquid  hydrastis,  3iv. 
Glycerine,  §i. 
Aqua,  q.s.,  gvi. 

Mix.  Sig.  One  teaspoonful  before  each  meal  and  at 
bedtime. 

In  gastralgia,  when  there  are  cramping  pains  in  the 
stomach,  tincture  melilotus  alba,  third  decimal  is  the 
remedy,  half  teaspoonful  in  half  a  glass  of  water.  Give 
in  teaspoonful  doses  every  half  hour.  I  have  had  good 
success  with  oil  gaultheria,  given  in  twenty-drop  doses 
on  sugar ;  then  repeat  the  dose  in  two  hours  if  needed. 
When  the  pain  is  made  worse  by  bending  forward  and 
by  lying  down,  give  sixty  drops  of  tincture  dioscorea 
in  a  wine-glass  of  hot  water ;  repeat  the  dose  in  an  hour 
if  needed. 

In  gastric  ulcer,  when  there  is  burning  pain  and 
flatulence,  with  vomiting,  and  the  ulcer  is  near  the 
pyloric  extremity  of  the  stomach,  the  third  decimal 
trituration  of  nitrate  uranium  in  three-grain  doses  four 
times  a  day  will  prove  beneficial.  In  ulcer  in  the 
stomach  when  there  is  weight  at  the  pit  of  the  stom- 
ach, fullness  and  distress  immediately  after  eating, 
vomiting  of  ropy  mucus  and  blood  (a  condition  often 
found  in  beer  drinkers)  the  remedy  is  bi-chromate  of 
potash,  third  decimal  trituration,  three  tablets  once  in 
three  hours.  In  gastric  ulcer  when  the  patient  is 


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anemic  and  chlorotic,  and  the  pain  is  below  the  ensi- 
form  cartilage  and  extends  through  to  the  spine,  ar- 
gentium  nitricum,  sixth  decimal  trituration,  is  the  rem- 
edy. Give  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  When 
with  ulceration  of  the  stomach  the  tongue  has  a 
creamy,  yellowish  coating,  with  vomiting  of  sour  acid 
fluids  of  a  substance  like  coffee  grounds,  natrum  phos., 
third  decimal  trituration,  is  the  remedy.  Add  ten 
grains  to  a  cup  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
hour. 

In  hemorrhage  of  the  stomach  there  is  one  remedy 
that  leads  all  others.  It  is  tincture  geranium  macula- 
turn.  One  drachm  given  once  an  hour  will  arrest  the 
hemorrhage.  It  also  relieves  the  pain  and  distress  of 
ulceration  of  the  stomach  and  has  cured  many  cases. 

In  catarrh  of  the  stomach  and  bowels,  when  there  is 
nausea  day  and  night,  with  slimy  discharge  from  the 
bowels,  the  smell  of  any  kind  of  food,  or  the  thought  of 
it,  is  repulsive,  nux  vomica  in  small  doses  is  curative. 
In  1882  I  had  the  above  symptoms.  The  usual  remedies 
had  failed.  I  was  getting  worse  every  day.  A  home- 
opathic pharmacist  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  prescribed 
tincture  nux  vomica,  sixth  decimal  dilution,  five  drops 
once  in  two  hours.  It  seemed  to  be  the  remedy  needed 
in  my  case,  and  in  a  short  time  I  was  well  and  attend- 
ing to  my  business. 

Graphites  is  indicated  where  the  stomach  and  bowels 
are  greatly  distended  with  gas  of  a  putrid  and  rancid 
nature  with  cramping  pains  in  the  stomach  that  are 
relieved  by  eating.  Give  graphites,  third  decimal  trit- 
uration, three  tablets  four  times  a  day. 

Appendicitis.  In  nine  cases  out  of  ten  this  condition 
is  really  obstruction  of  the  bowels  or  intestinal  indiges- 


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tion.  I  have  treated  several  cases  that  had  been  op- 
erated on  for  appendicitis,  and  the  pain  still  remained. 
I  treated  them  for  intestinal  indigestion  and  cured 
them.  A  case  of  cancer  of  the  bowels  came  under  my 
notice.  The  pain  was  in  the  left  side,  yet  the  surgeon 
insisted  that  it  was  a  case  of  appendicitis.  He  oper- 
ated on  the  man  and  found  the  appendix  healthy,  but 
discovered  that  it  was  a  case  of  cancer  of  the  bowels. 
It  has  been  claimed  that  foreign  bodies,  like  grape, 
plum,  and  cherry  seeds,  cause  appendicitis.  How  can 
this  be  when  the  opening  in  the  appendix  is  about  as 
large  as  a  pin  head?  We  find  that  the  base  of  the 
appendix  at  the  lower  point,  its  body  and  apex  directed 
upwards  and  inwards,  is  held  in  position  by  a  fold  of 
peritoneum.  Then  how  can  seeds  twice  the  size  of  the 
diameter  of  the  appendix  gravitate  upwards  into  the 
lumen  of  the  appendix  and  cause  inflammation?  The 
appendix  is  a  glandular  body  with  a  lubricating  sub- 
stance to  prevent  any  obstruction  in  the  bowels  when 
the  contents  are  passing  from  the  small  intestine  into 
the  larger.  The  fraud  practiced  upon  a  confiding  pub- 
lic by  certain  doctors  will  be  apparent  as  we  read  and 
appreciate  the  above. 

In  my  forty  years'  practice  I  have  never  lost  a  case 
of  appendicitis,  or  have  I  ever  seen  a  case  that  required 
an  operation.  In  1900  there  were  5,111  deaths  from 
appendicitis ;  almost  every  day  we  read  of  deaths  from 
this  condition  following  an  operation.  In  appendicitis, 
when  the  bowels  seem  full  of  gas  and  a  griping,  twist- 
ing pain,  I  give  tincture  dioscorea,  sixty  drops  in  a 
wine-glass  of  hot  water  every  hour  until  relieved. 
When  there  is  soreness  and  tenderness  of  the  right 
side,  I  give  ferri  phos,,  third  decimal  trituration,  and 


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kali  mur.,  third  decimal  trituration,  five  grains  of  each 
in  a  goblet  of  hot  water,  giving  two  teaspoonfuls  once 
in  a  half  hour.  A  hot  flaxseed  poultice  should  be  ap- 
plied over  the  painful  part.  If  there  seems  to  be  some 
obstruction  in  the  bowel,  give  an  enema  of  one  tea- 
spoonful  of  salt  in  a  pint  of  warm  water,  or  a  high 
enema  of  warm  olive  oil.  A  dose  of  castor  oil  will 
help  to  clear  the  bowels  of  any  feces  which  may  be 
lodged  therein.  For  the  persistent  vomiting  which 
some  patients  have,  ipecac  is  the  remedy.  Give  ipecac, 
third  decimal  dilution,  fifteen  drops  in  half  a  glass  of 
water,  teaspoonful  every  half  hour. 

In  cholera  morbus  I  have  given  the  following  rem- 
edy for  the  pain,  vomiting,  and  purging  of  the  bowels. 

I?     Carb.  Magnesia,  Si. 

Arom.  Spts.  Ammonia,  3i. 
Aqua  Menth.  Piperita,  §iv. 

Mix.  Sig.  One  teaspoonful  once  an  hour  until  re- 
lieved. 

Apply  mustard  paste  over  the  stomach  and  bowels ; 
take  it  off  as  soon  as  the  skin  is  red.  This  remedy,  as 
given  above,  will  check  the  vomiting  and  discharges 
from  the  bowels.  To  allay  any  nausea  or  irritation  I 
usually  give  after  the  above  mixture  the  following: 

I£     Tr.  Aconite,  gtts.  v. 

Tr.  Nux  Vomica,  gtts.  x. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

I  have  never  needed  any  other  treatment  than  the 
above  in  all  the  years  of  my  practice.  I  have  seen 
patients  so  weak  from  the  discharges  that  they  would 


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fall  down  on  the  floor,  too  exhausted  to  walk  to  the 
bed.  I  have  never  lost  a  case  from  this  disease  or  ever 
had  to  prescribe  any  opiates  or  any  kind  of  dope. 

For  proctitis,  with  a  sense  of  fullness,  burning,  beat- 
ing, and  throbbing  in  the  rectum,  I  have  given  tincture 
gelsemium,  tincture  collinsonia,  a.  a.  gtts.  xx,  aqua  six 
ounces.  Mix.  Sig.  One  teaspoonful  every  half  hour 
for  two  hours ;  then  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  These 
two  remedies  have  an  especial  affinity  for  the  rectum, 
and  will  do  what  no  other  remedies  will  do  in  the 
above  condition. 

In  proctalgia,  with  smarting  pains  in  the  rectum 
after  stool,  fissures  at  the  anal  orifice,  pains  in  the  rec- 
tum as  if  being  torn,  a  feeling  as  if  a  sharp  stick  was 
in  the  rectum,  give  nitric  acid,  third  decimal  dilution, 
fifteen  drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water.  Teaspoonful 
once  in  two  hours. 

In  dysentery  I  have  been  in  the  habit  of  prescribing: 

^     Tincture  Aconite,  gtts.  x. 
Sulph.  Magnesia,  grs.  x. 
Aqua,  §vi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

If  the  stools  have  considerable  blood  in  them  I  add 
ten  drops  tincture  ipecac  to  the  prescription.  The 
above  has  been  my  treatment  for  acute  dysentery,  and 
it  has  always  been  successful. 

In  dysentery  of  old  persons,  when  the  stools  are 
scanty  and  contain  blood  and  mucus,  with  severe  te- 
nesmus  and  a  low  type  of  fever,  I  give  tincture  bap- 
tisia,  gtts.  xx.  Aqua,  four  ounces.  Mix.  Sig.  Tea- 
spoonful  once  an  hour. 

In  diarrhea  where  the  discharges  smell  sour  I  give 


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syr.  rhei.,  half  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours.  In 
diarrhea,  when  the  stools  are  profuse,  very  offensive, 
worse  in  the  morning,  and  prolapse  of  the  anus,  podo- 
phyllum  peltatum  is  the  remedy.  Put  twenty  drops  of 
the  sixth  decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass  of  water,  and 
direct  your  patient  to  take  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two 
hours.  I  have  cured  some  bad  cases  presenting  these 
symptoms  with  this  remedy. 

In  chronic  diarrhea,  with  dirty,  watery  discharges 
and  colicky  pains,  tincture  epilobium  augustifolium  is 
the  remedy,  ten  drops  once  in  three  hours. 

In  prolapsus  ani  give  three  drops  tincture  aesculus 
hippo,  before  each  meal  and  at  bedtime.  Make  an 
ointment  of  one  drachm  ext.  hamamelis  virg.  to  an 
ounce  of  vaseline,  and  apply  to  the  anus  three  times  a 
day. 

For  fissure  of  the  anus,  where  there  is  severe  pain 
after  each  stool,  with  burning  and  tenesmus  that  lasts 
for  some  time,  I  prescribe  tincture  krameria,  third 
decimal  dilution,  fifteen  drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water, 
and  order  the  patient  to  take  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two 
hours.  When  in  fissure  of  the  anus  there  is  itching 
and  biting  in  the  anus,  fissures  and  ulcers  are  purple 
in  color  and  covered  with  crusts,  give  ten  drops  tinc- 
ture paeonia  officinalis  three  times  a  day.  As  a  local 
application  for  the  fissure  I  like  an  ointment  made  by 
adding  salicylic  acid,  grains  xx  to  one  ounce  of  vase- 
line. Mix  and  apply  three  times  a  day. 

In  hemorrhoids  where  there  is  dryness  and  heat  in 
the  rectum,  and  it  feels  as  if  it  were  filled  with  sticks, 
knife-like  pains  shoot  up  the  rectum,  severe  dull  back- 
ache in  lumbo-sacral  region,  tincture  aesculus  hippo,  is 
the  remedy.  Give  it  in  three-drop  doses  once  in  two 


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hours.  When  there  is  constipation  alternating  with 
diarrhea,  bleeding  from  the  hemorrhoids,  great  flatu- 
lence, sensation  of  a  foreign  body  in  the  rectum,  it  feels 
as  if  it  were  full  of  sand,  collinsonia  is  the  indicated 
remedy.  Put  ten  drops  of  collinsonia  in  half  a  glass 
of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  In 
bleeding  hemorrhoids,  when  the  anus  has  a  bruised, 
sore  feeling,  the  tumors  bleed  profusely,  with  soreness, 
fullness,  heaviness,  back  feels  as  if  it  would  break  off, 
hemorrhoids  of  a  blue  color,  anus  feels  sore  and  raw, 
tincture  hamamelis  should  be  selected.  Give  it  in  five- 
drop  doses  three  times  a  day.  Each  of  the  above  rem- 
edies is  claimed  by  some  writers  to  be  a  cure  for  hem- 
orrhoids, but  the  reader  must  keep  in  mind  the  definite 
indications  of  each  remedy  to  be  able  to  prescribe  in- 
telligently and  successfully. 

Where  the  parts  are  sore  and  sensitive,  I  apply  the 
following  ointment : 

^     Ext.  Conium,  grs.  x. 
Tannic  Acid,  grs.  xii. 
Morphine,  grs.  iv. 
Vaseline,  §i. 

Mix.  Sig.  Apply  to  the  parts  night  and  morning. 
Black  molasses  may  be  applied  on  absorbent  cotton 
and  pressed  up  against  the  anus.  Let  it  remain  there, 
after  first  anointing  the  hemorrhoids  with  the  molasses 
and  pushing  them  up  into  the  rectum.  Do  this  after 
each  movement  of  the  bowels.  This  is  a  simple  rem- 
edy, but  with  it  I  have  cured  many  cases  of  hemor- 
rhoids. 

Cholera  Asiatica.  An  alcoholic  bath  is  a  good  pro- 
phylactic to  this  disease,  also  tincture  camphor  in 


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three-drop  doses  night  and  morning.  For  the  diarrhea 
in  the  first  stage  give  phosphoric  acid,  third  decimal 
dilution.  Add  fifteen  drops  to  half  a  glass  of  water 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  In  the  fol- 
lowing stage  of  the  cholera  where  there  are  spasms  of 
pain  in  the  calves  of  the  legs  and  painless  diarrhea  you 
should  give  five  drops  of  tincture  camphor  in  a  wine- 
glass of  hot  water  with  a  little  brandy  every  fifteen 
minutes  until  the  patient  gets  warmed  up  and  begins 
to  perspire.  This  perspiration  should  be  kept  up  for 
eight  or  ten  hours.  If  there  is  headache  add  twenty 
drops  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  of  tincture  bella- 
donna to  a  glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
half  hour.  In  the  second  stage,  plenty  of  ice-cold  water 
should  be  given  to  the  patient.  In  the  second  stage 
when  the  cramps  are  in  the  lower  extremeties,  vera- 
trum  alba  is  the  remedy.  Put  twenty  drops  of  the  first 
decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  In  the  second  stage, 
when  the  cramps  are  in  the  bowels  and  breast,  cuprum 
metalicum  is  the  remedy,  giving  three  grains  of  the 
third  decimal  trituration  every  hour.  In  the  stage  of 
collapse,  with  rapid  sinking  of  the  vital  force,  cold 
sweat  on  the  forehead,  face  pale  blue,  features  sunken, 
whole  body  icy  cold,  veratrum  alba  is  the  remedy  in- 
dicated and  should  be  given  in  the  same  doses  as 
specified  above. 

Cholera  Infantum.  In  this  disease  when  there  is  vom- 
iting of  undigested  food,  the  food  passes  from  the 
bowels  undigested,  stools  sour,  small,  frequent  and 
bloody,  cuphea  viscosissima  is  the  remedy.  Give  five 
drops  of  the  tincture  cuphea  every  hour.  If  in  cholera 
infantum  there  is  sudden  and  profuse  vomiting,  first 


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the  contents  of  the  stomach,  then  like  rice  water,  pain- 
ful cramps  and  watery  diarrhea  with  faintness,  euphor- 
bia corollata  is  the  remedy.  Add  ten  drops  tincture 
euphorbia  to  a  glass  of  water  and  order  a  teaspoonful 
to  be  given  every  hour.  In  this  disease,  when  the 
child  lies  quiet,  appears  drowsy,  there  is  tenesmus  and 
slimy  discharges  streaked  with  blood,  ferrum  phos.  3x, 
is  the  remedy.  My  little  girl  was  near  death's  door 
with  this  disease;  nothing  would  stay  on  her  stomach 
until  we  gave  her  some  tomato  soup,  which  she  re- 
tained. This  was  the  turning  point  in  her  case,  as 
from  that  hour  she  began  to  recover.  I  have  known 
of  other  cases  where  the  tomato  soup  has  made  a 
change  for  the  better. 

Peritonitis.  When  there  is  a  quick,  bounding  pulse, 
high  fever,  extreme  restlessness,  fear  of  death,  sharp 
cutting  pains  in  the  whole  abdomen,  which  is  dis- 
tended and  sensitive,  aconite  is  the  remedy  and  the 
best  results  are  obtained  from  the  third  decimal  dilu- 
tion. Twenty  drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water,  giving 
one  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  Apply  over  the  ab- 
domen a  bag  of  hops  and  wormwood  wet  in  hot  vine- 
gar, and  change  every  half  hour.  Some  writers  tell  us 
that  the  pulse  of  aconite  is  "  small  and  quick  " ;  this  is 
a  mistake.  The  pulse  indicating  aconite  is  a  full 
bounding  pulse.  In  my  study  of  materia  medica  I  do 
not  take  any  man's  "  say  so  "  for  what  a  remedy  will 
do.  I  test  it  in  my  own  way  and  form  my  own  con- 
clusions from  such  testing.  In  many  cases  I  have 
tested  the  remedies  on  myself  in  health  and  carefully 
noted  the  symptoms.  In  this  way  I  have  obtained  the 
true  effect  upon  the  human  system  and  therefore  can 
judge  what  the  remedy  will  do  in  diseased  conditions. 


Definite  Medication  105 

Puerperal  Peritonitis.  Here  I  like  tincture  gelsemium 
and  cimicifuga,  twenty  drops  of  each  in  a  glass  of 
water.  I  order  a  teaspoonful  of  this  to  be  given  every 
half  hour  and  apply  hops  and  wormwood  steeped  in 
vinegar  over  the  abdomen ;  this  application  is  to  be 
changed  every  half  hour.  One  of  the  worst  cases  I 
ever  had  was  years  ago  in  New  Hampshire,  in  the 
winter,  when  the  thermometer  registered  thirty  de- 
grees below  zero.  I  had  attended  a  lady  in  confine- 
ment and  left  her  in  good  condition.  During  the  next 
day  she  got  out  of  bed  and  went  and  stood  in  the  open 
door  and  talked  with  a  neighbor  until  she  was  thor- 
oughly chilled ;  her  lochia  stopped,  and  she  bloated  up 
as  big  as  a  woman  at  nine  months.  A  messenger  was 
sent  for  me  about  dark.  When  I  arrived  at  the  house 
I  found  a  well-developed  case  of  puerperal  peritonitis, 
— a  good  case  for  the  undertaker.  I  began  treating 
the  patient  with  remedies  given  above.  I  had  a  lady 
to  assist  me  in  keeping  the  bags  of  hops  and  wormwood 
hot,  and  changed  them  every  fifteen  minutes.  It  was  a 
hard  fight,  but  we  won,  and  before  morning  the  patient 
was  out  of  danger  and  she  got  well. 

In  a  case  of  acute  general  peritonitis  in  a  lady  fifty- 
six  years  old — a  hard-working  woman  without  much 
vitality  to  depend  upon — I  was  at  my  "  wits  end  "  to 
know  just  what  to  do,  for  the  text-books — my  allo- 
pathic, homeopathic,  and  eclectic  works  on  practice — 
told  me  that  the  prognosis  was  bad,  "  invariably  fatal 
within  a  week."  That  was  encouraging  to  a  doctor 
who  had  his  reputation  to  make  in  a  community.  I 
just  reasoned  it  out  like  this.  "  Here  is  a  case  of  in- 
flammation, now  why  not  treat  it  as  such  and  cure  it?  " 
My  biochemical  practice  taught  me  how  to  do  it.  I 


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put  five  grains  ferri  phos.,  third  decimal  trituration, 
and  five  grains  kali  mur.  third  decimal  trituration,  in  a 
cup  of  hot  water,  and  gave  one  teaspoonful  once  in 
fifteen  minutes  for  an  hour,  then  every  half  hour.  The 
hops  and  wormwood  were  applied  as  noted  above.  I 
made  up  my  mind  to  "  fight  it  out  on  that  line."  In 
twenty-four  hours  I  knew  I  was  master  of  the  disease 
and  the  patient  recovered,  although  the  doctors  near  by 
said  she  "  must  die." 

There  will  be  times  when  your  text-books  will  tell 
you  that  a  certain  diseased  condition  is  "  incurable," 
but  don't  let  that  discourage  you;  follow  up  your  in- 
vestigations until  you  find  a  reme'dy  that  will  cure 
your  patient.  One  cure  of  such  a  case  will  establish 
your  reputation  in  a  community.  The  world  loves  a 
man  who  can  do  things,  but  has  no  use  for  a  man  who 
folds  his  hands  and  says  it  "  can't  be  done."  Many  a 
time  I  have  taken  cases  and  cured  them  when  the  ver- 
dict of  "  death  "  had  been  given  out  by  some  of  my 
brother  physicians,  but  I  would  not  give  up  the  fight 
as  long  as  there  was  any  life  in  them.  We  should  re- 
member that  in  some  of  the  greatest  battles  of  the 
world's  history,  victory  has  been  snatched  from  appar- 
ent defeat  by  the  general  who  would  not  be  conquered. 

In  a  case  of  muco-enteritis  I  was  consulted  by  a 
physician  who  wished  to  know  what  could  be  done  for 
the  patient.  She  complained  of  a  severe  abdominal 
pain  that  drove  her  nearly  frantic,  with  a  muco-fecu- 
lent  discharge.  I  advised  bi-chromate  potash,  third 
decimal  trituration,  two  grains  once  in  two  hours. 
Under  this  treatment  the  patient  got  well. 

Constipation.  Persons  who  sit  a  good  deal,  do  not 
exercise  sufficiently,  and,  though  there  is  frequent  de- 


Definite  Medication  107 

sire  to  have  a  movement  of  the  bowels,  pass  only  a 
small  amount  each  time,  will  obtain  good  results  from 
the  use  of  nux  vomica.  Give  three  tablets  of  the  third 
decimal  trituration  of  the  nux  after  each  meal  and  at 
bedtime.  In  constipation  where  there  is  no  desire  for 
stool,  bowels  are  inactive,  the  stools  large,  hard  and 
dry,  as  if  burnt,  tincture  bryonia  is  the  remedy.  Give 
three  drops  three  times  a  day.  If  in  constipation  the 
stools  are  difficult  of  expulsion  and  straining  causes 
flow  of  blood,  leaves  fissure  and  soreness  of  the  anus, 
the  natrum  muriate  will  prove  effectual.  Give  five 
grains  of  the  second  decimal  trituration  three  times  a 
day.  In  some  cases  I  have  had  good  results  from 
tincture  hydrastis,  five  drops  before  breakfast,  espe- 
cially in  patients  who  lead  a  sedentary  life  or  have 
been  dosed  with  all  kinds  of  pills.  When  in  constipa- 
tion there  is  a  grayish-white  coated  tongue,  light- 
colored  stools,  a  torpid  liver,  and  protruding  eyeballs 
kali  mur.  will  be  found  useful.  Prescribe  ten  grains  of 
the  sixth  decimal  trituration  at  bedtime.  The  drink- 
ing of  a  glass  of  cold  water  the  first  thing  in  the  morn- 
ing will  help  to  overcome  the  constipation.  Again, 
put  wheat  bran  in  the  oven ;  roast  it  as  brown  as  you 
would  coffee.  Then  mix  with  equal  parts  of  sugar. 
Take  three  teaspoonfuls  of  this  mixture  in  milk  at 
breakfast  time  with  your  other  food.  It  is  one  of  the 
best  things  we  have  to  overcome  the  constipation. 

Intestinal  Hemorrhage.  In  the  treatment  of  this  affec- 
tion I  have  always  depended  upon  five  grains  of  char- 
coal once  in  three  hours  in  capsules.  Tincture  ipecac, 
five  drops  once  an  hour  is  a  good  remedy,  also  ferri 
phos.,  third  decimal  trituration,  should  not  be  for- 
gotten. 


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Lead  Colic.  I  practiced  several  years  in  a  town  where 
there  were  many  men  employed  as  painters  in  carriage 
manufactories.  As  a  result  I  used  to  average  about 
twenty-five  cases  of  painter's  colic  a  year.  It  is  cus- 
tomary to  dose  such  cases  with  morphine,  but  I  never 
used  it.  The  treatment  which  I  depended  upon  was 
the  "  White  Liquid  Physic "  of  the  older  eclectics, 
made  as  follows: 

I£     Sulph.  Magnesia,  §xi. 
Nitrate  Potash,  §ss. 
Sulphuric  Acid,  3i. 
Boiling  Water,  Oii. 

Mix.  Sig.  Tablespoonful  once  in  three  hours  until 
it  moves  the  bowels  freely.  After  a  free  evacuation 
of  the  bowels  give  it  in  smaller  doses. 

A  careful  study  of  the  above  prescription  will  con- 
vince the  reader  that  it  is  about  as  near  a  perfect  anti- 
dote for  the  lead  poisoning  as  could  be  prepared.  In 
the  treatment  of  my  cases  I  had  them  back  at  work  in 
the  shop  in  a  few  days,  while  under  the  old  plan  of 
treatment  the  men  were  sick  for  several  weeks.  In 
lead  paralysis  iodide  of  potash  is  the  remedy,  five 
grains  three  times  a  day. 

Colic.  In  this  affection  there  are  certain  remedies 
that  can  be  depended  upon.  Each  remedy  has  a  clear 
cut  indication  and  the  reader  should  study  each  case 
carefully  and  adapt  the  remedy  to  it  that  is  indicated. 
Dioscorea  is  the  remedy  for  wind  colic.  The  more  gas 
there  is  in  the  bowels  the  stronger  the  indication  for 
the  remedy.  When  the  pain  is  aggravated  by  bending 
forward,  relieved  by  standing  erect  or  bending  "back- 


Definite  Medication  109 

ward,  and  is  of  a  griping,  twisting  nature,  as  if  the 
bowels  were  grasped  by  the  hand  and  twisted,  the 
dioscorea  will  give  prompt  relief.  Give  sixty  drops  of 
tincture  dioscorea  in  a  wine-glass  of  hot  water  every 
half  hour  until  relieved.  This  is  one  of  the  most  val- 
uable remedies  which  has  been  handed  down  to  us  by 
the  fathers  of  the  Eclectic  School  of  Medicine. 

When  in  colic  the  pain  is  agonizing,  causing  the  pa- 
tient to  bend  double,  or  to  press  something  hard 
against  the  abdomen — the  patient  leans  over  chairs, 
the  table,  bed,  or  anything  hard  to  get  relief — colo- 
cynth  is  the  remedy.  Give  tincture  colocynth  five 
drops  in  four  ounces  of  aqua,  having  the  patient  take 
a  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  every  fifteen  minutes 
until  relieved. 

In  colic  with  cramping  pains  relieved  by  heat,  there 
is  a  belching  of  gas  which  does  not  lessen  the  pain, 
phosphate  of  magnesia  will  prove  useful.  Add  five 
grains  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  to  a  half  cup  of 
hot  water  and  feed  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  every  few 
minutes  until  relieved.  It  is  the  remedy  for  the  above 
group  of  symptoms. 

Enteritis.  In  the  first  stages  of  enteritis  with  fever, 
high  temperature,  tenderness  of  abdomen,  chilliness, 
vomiting,  ferri  phos.  is  the  remedy.  Place  five  grains 
of  the  third  decimal  trituration  in  a  cup  of  hot  water, 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  fifteen  minutes  for  an 
hour ;  then  once  in  half  an  hour.  Apply  flaxseed  poul- 
tice wet  with  warm  saleratus  water,  one  teaspoonful  of 
saleratus  to  the  pint  of  warm  water,  over  the  bowels. 
In  the  second  stage,  when  the  tongue  is  white,  abdo- 
men hard  and  swollen,  with  constipation,  kali  mur.  is 
the  remedy.  Add  five  grains  of  the  third  decimal  trit- 


110  Definite  Medication 

uration  to  a  cup  of  hot  water  and  give  two  teaspoon- 
fuls  every  half  hour. 

Dropsy.  In  dropsy  where  the  feet  only  are  swollen 
the  heart  is  at  fault ;  if  the  bloating  is  only  in  the  ab- 
domen it  is  the  liver  that  is  affected ;  if  there  is  a  gen- 
eral swelling  the  trouble  is  located  in  the  kidney. 

In  dropsy,  where  the  urine  is  scanty  and  dark  col- 
ored, the  skin  is  distended  and  glistening,  circulation 
slow,  constipation,  a  sensation  of  sinking  at  the  stom- 
ach, great  thirst,  but  water  disagrees,  causes  pain  and 
vomiting,  puffiness  of  the  face  and  under  the  eyes, 
apocynum  cannabinum  is  the  remedy.  The  decoction 
of  the  remedy  as  prepared  by  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of 
Philadelphia,  will  produce  the  best  results.  Dose  from 
one  to  three  drachms  every  four  hours.  As  much  as 
two  quarts  of  urine  will  be  passed  in  twenty-four 
hours. 

In  dropsy  cardiac,  when  the  patient  cannot  lie  down, 
is  obliged  to  sit  up,  jugular  veins  distended,  face  livid, 
with  loose  cough,  pulse  weak,  feels  as  if  the  heart 
would  stop  beating,  digitalis  is  the  remedy.  When  I 
give  this  drug  in  dropsy  I  begin  with  three  drops  tinc- 
ture digitalis  and  increase  one  drop  a  day  up  to  ten 
drops,  the  doses  being  once  in  four  hours.  With  each 
dose  of  digitalis  I  give  a  solution  of  cream  of  tartar, 
about  ten  grains  in  a  wine-glass  of  water.  I  find  I  get 
better  results  from  it  in  this  way. 

In  dropsy,  when  the  heart  is  weak  and  unable  to 
carry  the  circulation  of  the  blood,  there  may  be  an 
effusion  of  liquid — there  is  soreness  in  the  uterus  and 
palpitation  of  the  heart,  you  should  think  of  conval- 
laria.  Give  tincture  convallaria  two  drachms,  aqua 


Definite  Medication  111 

six  ounces.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 
In  cardiac  dropsy  with  anasarca,  urine  scanty,  great 
dyspnea,  pulse  irregular,  headaches,  pain  extending 
from  occiput  around  the  temples  to  the  eyes  and  across 
the  front,  give  five  drops  of  tincture  adonis  in  a  little 
water  three  times  a  day.  In  stubborn  cases  of  dropsy 
I  have  found  the  following  an  old  standby : 

1^     Elaterin,  grs.  i. 
Jalap,  grs.  xx. 
Squills,  grs.  xx. 

Mix.  Make  twenty  pills.  Sig.  One  pill  every  four 
hours.  In  eight  hours  the  water  will  start  to  flow;  in 
two  days  it  flows  freely.  Strychnine,  one-thirtieth 
grain,  should  be  given  once  in  three  hours  to  prevent 
collapse. 

Worms.  In  worms  of  children  I  have  always  de- 
pended upon  the  following;  it  does  the  work  every 
time : 

^     Santonin,  grs.  x. 
Podophyllin,  grs.  ii. 
Sacch.  Alba.,  grs.  xxx. 

Mix.  Divide  into  chart.  No.  20.  Sig.  One  pow- 
der night  and  morning  until  the  bowels  move  freely, 
then  stop. 

Every  mother  who  has  children  likes  "  worm  pow- 
ders "  in  the  house.  Then  when  the  children  are  white 
round  the  mouth,  pick  their  nose,  have  bad  breath, 
these  powders  will  carry  off  the  worms. 

For  tapeworm  the  remedies  are  legion,  but  the  old 


112  Definite  Medication 

remedy,  aromatic  sulphuric  acid,  is  my  standby.  Put 
a  teaspoonful  in  a  wine-glass  of  sweetened  water  and 
drink  at  once.  Take  three  such  doses  in  twenty-four 
hours.  It  will  bring  worms. 


CHAPTER  VI 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES   FOR  THE   LIVER,   SPLEEN,  GALL   BLADDER 
AND  MALARIA 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication  115 


CHAPTER  VI 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES   FOR  THE   LIVER,   SPLEEN,  GALL   BLADDER 
AND  MALARIA 

HEPATITIS.  In  the  first  stage  of  hepatitis, 
ferri  phos.,  third  decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
add  ten  grains  to  a  goblet  of  hot  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  If  the  pulse  is  hard 
and  tense  give  veratrum  viride.  Add  ten  drops  tinc- 
ture veratrum  to  a  cup  of  water  and  give  teaspoonful 
doses  hourly.  If  there  is  vomiting  of  bile,  bitter  taste 
in  the  mouth,  tongue  coated  dirty  yellow,  soreness  and 
sharp  sticking  pains  in  the  liver,  natrum  sulph.,  sixth 
decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Place  ten  grains  in  a  cup  of 
hot  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  every 
hour.  If  there  is  a  white  tongue,  burning  and  stitch- 
ing pain,  worse  from  motion,  bloating  of  the  stomach 
and  abdomen,  constipation,  great  thirst,  you  should 
give  bryonia.  Dose,  add  ten  drops  tincture  bryonia 
to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  in  teaspoonful  doses 
every  hour.  If  symptoms  of  abscess  of  the  liver  ap- 
pear with  beating  and  throbbing  give  hepar  sulph., 
third  decimal  trituration,  three  tablets  every  two 
hours.  A  mustard  paste  applied  over  the  region  of 
the  liver  will  give  great  relief  from  the  pain. 

Cirrhosis  of  the  Liver,  In  cirrhosis  of  the  liver  when 
this  organ  is  hard  like  leather  euonymin  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  one  grain  night  and  morning.  If  there  is  pain 
in  right  side,  cramp-like  pains  in  the  abdomen,  consti- 
pation, clay  colored  stools,  tincture  chionanthus  is  the 


116  Definite  Medication 

indicated  remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops  tincture  chionan- 
thus  virg.  three  times  a  day.  If  indigestion  is  a  prom- 
inent symptom,  give  tincture  nux  vomica,  third  deci- 
mal dilution,  five  drop  doses  three  times  a  day  before 
meals.  If  there  is  obstinate  constipation,  with  white 
tongue,  and  dry,  hard  stools  give  tincture  bryonia,  five 
drops,  three  times  a  day. 

Enlargement  of  the  Liver.  In  enlargement  of  the  liver 
when  the  enlargement  is  in  the  transverse  measure- 
ment, and  when  there  is  uneasiness,  nausea,  stitching 
pains  in  the  left  lobe  of  the  liver,  with  inflation  of  the 
abdomen,  tincture  carduus  marianus  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  five  drops  three  times  a  day.  If  the  enlarge- 
ment of  the  liver  is  perpendicular,  reaching  towards 
the  nipple  of  the  right  side,  with  a  constant  pain  under 
the  lower  and  inner  angle  of  the  right  scapula,  consti- 
pation— the  feces  being  hard,  round  balls,  like  sheep's 
dung,  yellow  gray  color  of  the  skin,  if  there  is  diarrhea 
it  is  of  a  yellowish  color  and  worse  at  night.  With  the 
above  symptoms  chelidonium  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
tincture  chelidonium  ten  drops  three  times  a  day. 
When  indicated  this  remedy  will  reduce  the  size  of  the 
liver. 

When  in  the  enlargement  of  the  liver  there  is  aching 
and  heaviness  in  the  liver,  worse  when  lying  on  the 
left  side  Ptelea  trifoliata  is  indicated.  Dose,  tincture 
ptelea  ten  drops  in  a  half  glass  of  water;  of  this  mix- 
ture give  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  In  enlarge- 
ment of  the  liver  when  the  tumor  seems  to  lie  between 
the  liver  and  the  navel,  showing  that  the  left  lobe  is 
affected  chelone  glabra  is  needed.  Dose,  tincture  che- 
lone  five  drops  every  four  hours. 

Splenitis.     In   splenitis   when   there   is  pain   in   the 


Definite  Medication  117 

whole  left  side,  enlargement  of  the  spleen,  extreme 
dyspnea  at  times,  must  fight  for  air,  tincture  ceanothus 
americanus  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  once  in 
three  hours. 

Enlargement  of  the  Spleen.  In  enlargement  of  the 
spleen  when  there  is  a  brown  eruption  on  the  sternal 
portion  of  the  thorax,  with  palpitation  of  the  heart, 
with  nausea,  uneasiness  in  and  distention  of  the  ab- 
domen tincture  carduus  marianus  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  tincture  carduus  five  drops  once  in  three  hours. 
When  given  as  indicated  it  will  reduce  the  size  of  the 
spleen. 

Enlarged  spleen  with  enfeebled  circulation,  the  parts 
non-elastic,  sodden,  doughy,  tincture  polymnia  uveda- 
lia  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops  of  the  tincture 
three  times  a  day.  It  may  be  used  locally  with  good 
effect.  The  polymnia  ungent  (Lloyd's)  rubbed  well 
into  the  swelling  and  apply  heat  at  the  same  time.  Do 
this  night  and  morning. 

Gallstone  Colic.  In  gallstone  colic  I  like  the  tincture 
hydrastis,  giving  ten  drops  every  half  hour  in  a  wine- 
glass of  hot  water.  It  has  relieved  these  patients  when 
other  remedies  failed.  To  get  rid  of  the  gall  stones, 
take  one  grain  of  podophyllin  at  night,  and  in  the 
morning  take  three  ounces  of  olive  oil.  It  will  gener- 
ally bring  them  away. 

When  with  the  gall  stones  there  is  a  yellow  skin, 
constipated  bowels,  liver  enlarged,  bad  taste  in  the 
mouth,  dark  spots  before  the  eyes,  give  euonymin, 
third  decimal  trituration,  five  grains  once  in  two  hours. 
It  will  bring  away  the  gall  stones.  In  gall  stones 
where  there  is  pain  of  an  acute  or  dull  character  in  the 
hepatic  region  with  tenderness  of  the  liver,  yellowish 


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skin,  bile  in  the  urine,  stools  bright  yellow  or  clay 
colored,  and  pain  under  the  right  shoulder  blade,  tinc- 
ture chelidonium  majus  is  the  indicated  drug.  Dose, 
ten  drops  every  half  hour  until  relieved. 

To  prevent  the  formation  of  gall  stones,  I  like  the 
Syrup  juglands  cinerea  (green  bark).  Dose,  one  tea- 
spoonful  three  times  a  day ;  give  enough  of  it  to  keep 
the  bowels  loose.  The  above  syrup  is  prepared  by 
C.  T.  Bedford,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  and  I  believe  it  is 
the  best  remedy  we  have  to  cure  the  gall  stone  habit. 

Jaundice.  In  jaundice  with  severe  right-sided  pain, 
yellow  skin,  stools  clay  colored,  urine  loaded  with  bile, 
chelidonium  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  tincture  chelido- 
nium ten  drops  three  times  a  day.  When  there  is  dis- 
tress in  the  right  side  of  the  abdomen,  cramp-like  pains 
in  the  abdomen,  constipation,  stools  clay-colored,  urine 
dark,  chionanthus  virg.  is  the  remedy,  given  in  ten 
drop  doses  three  times  a  day.  In  jaundice,  with  pain 
in  the  right  hypochondria,  liver  feels  enlarged,  hard 
and  sensitive  to  the  touch,  skin  and  sclerotic  coat  of 
the  eye  yellow,  stools  light,  urine  dark,  you  can  give 
with  good  results,  the  second  decimal  trituration  of 
china,  prescribing  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  In 
the  condition  known  as  catarrhal  jaundice,  with  yellow 
skin  and  itching  sensation,  fullness  in  the  stomach  and 
abdomen,  scanty  yellow  frothy  urine,  loose,  mushy 
clay-colored  stools,  especially  in  new-born  babies,  my- 
rica  cerifera,  third  decimal  trituration  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  two  grains  on  the  baby's  tongue  twice  a  day. 
When  I  came  to  New  Jersey  twenty-seven  years  ago 
from  Massachusetts,  I  lived  in  the  State  about  two 
years  before  I  got  saturated  with  the  "  Jersey  malaria." 
Then  I  went  to  sleep  over  my  meals,  my  legs  felt  stiff 


Definite  Medication  119 

like  blocks  of  wood,  I  had  a  bad  taste  in  my  mouth,  I 
had  "  that  tired  feeling "  all  the  time.  I  prepared  a 
remedy  that  just  "  Hit  the  bull's  eye."  It  was  the  fol- 
lowing : 

^     Fluid  Hydrastis  (Lloyd's),  giii. 
Fowler's  Solution  Arsenic,  3ii. 
Elixir  Calisaya  q.  s.,  %vm. 

Mix.  Sig.     Half  teaspoonful  after  each  meal. 

I  have  prescribed  the  above  remedy  in  hundreds  of 
cases  of  malaria  and  it  has  never  failed  to  cure.  I  have 
sent  the  remedy  to  patients  in  several  States  in  the 
Union  and  always  with  good  results. 

In  ague  (intermittent  fever)  in  the  "cold  stage  "  I 
like  the  action  of  the  following  prescription : 

I£     Tr.  prickly  ash  berries. 

Tr.  Serpentaria,  a.  a.  gtts.  xx. 
Tr.  Capsicum,  gtts.  v. 

Mix.  Sig.  Give  this  as  one  dose  in  a  wine-glass  of 
hot  water  every  half  hour  until  warm.  Place  the  feet 
in  hot  water.  In  the  hot  stage  I  put  twenty  drops  of 
tincture  gelsemium  into  six  ounces  of  water  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  of  the  mixture  every  hour.  As  an  anti- 
periodic  I  like  the  "  blue  powder  "  of  the  old  Eclectics, 
the  formula  for  one  powder  being,  sulph.  quinine, 
two  grains,  prussiate  iron  three  grains,  capsicum  one- 
fourth  grain.  Give  one  of  these  powders  every  hour 
between  the  chills.  For  children  I  like  the  arsenate 
quinia,  third  decimal  trituration,  and  give  two  grains 
three  times  a  day.  In  some  cases  quinine  will  fail  or 
the  patient  cannot  take  it  in  any  form.  Then  we  may 
use  boletus  laricis  second  decimal,  giving  two  grains 


120  Definite  Medication 

once  in  two  hours  to  break  up  the  chills.  Many  cases 
where  quinine  has  been  tried  and  failed  to  break  up 
the  chills,  may  be  cured  by  grindelia  squarrosa. 
When  there  is  a  heavy  dull  headache,  obstinate  con- 
stipation, pain  in  region  of  the  liver,  burning  pain  un- 
der right  scapula,  tongue  dirty  brown,  skin  yellow, 
cough  with  frothy  sputa,  and  scanty  high  colored 
urine,  grindelia  squarrosa  is  the  remedy.  Add  one 
ounce  of  Fl.  Ext.  grindelia  to  five  ounces  of  Syr.  of 
orange  and  give  a  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  four 
times  a  day.  It  is  the  remedy  to  be  thought  of  when 
other  remedies  fail. 


CHAPTER  VII 

SPECIAL    REMEDIES    FOR    THE    BLADDER,    KIDNEYS    AND 
PROSTATE  GLAND 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication  123 


CHAPTER  VII 

SPECIAL    REMEDIES    FOR    THE    BLADDER,    KIDNEYS    AND 
PROSTATE  GLANDS 


I 


N  CYSTITIS  it  has  been  my  practice  to  begin 
the  treatment  with  the  following  prescription: 


^     Tr.  Aconite,  gtts.  x. 
Tr.  Gelsemium,  3ss. 
Spts.  Niter  Dulce,  §i. 
Aqua,  q.  s.  ad  |£vi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

Cystitis.  In  cystitis  when  the  urine  passes  only  a 
few  drops  at  a  time,  with  constant  urging  to  urinate 
and  cutting  pains  in  the  urethra,  tincture  cantharis  is 
the  remedy.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  of  the  third 
decimal  dilution  to  half  a  glass  of  water,  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  every  hour. 

In  an  irritable  bladder  where  there  is  a  constant  de- 
sire to  urinate  and  only  a  small  amount  can  be  passed 
camphor  is  the  needed  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  of 
tincture  camphor  in  a  wine-glass  of  warm  water  every 
hour.  In  partial  paralysis  of  the  bladder  in  old  women 
where  there  is  a  constant  dribbling  of  the  urine  which 
cannot  be  controlled  you  should  prescribe  one-fourth 
grain  ext.  nux  vomica  three  times  a  day.  In  the 
"  leaky "  bladder  of  old  men,  who  cannot  hold  the 
urine  but  it  dribbles  on  to  their  clothes,  and  there  is  a 
constant  desire  to  urinate  which  the  act  does  not  re- 
lieve, tincture  equisetum  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  tine- 


124  Definite  Medication 

ture  equisetum,  ten  drops  in  half  a  wine-glass  of  water 
every  two  hours. 

Suppression  of  the  Urine.  In  suppression  of  the  urine, 
when  the  patient  cannot  pass  any  urine,  I  always  ap- 
ply an  onion  poultice  over  the  bladder  and  add  twenty 
drops  of  tincture  apis  mel  in  a  glass  of  water  of  which 
the  patient  takes  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  Position 
to  aid  in  the  passing  urine.  First  lay  face  down  then 
slowly  rise  up  on  all  fours,  when  it  is  much  easier  to 
pass  the  urine.  The  above  treatment  will  prove  suc- 
cessful. 

During  my  practice  in  Vermont,  I  was  called  in  con- 
sultation to  see  a  man  who  had  an  old  stricture  from 
gonorrhea.  He  worked  on  a  farm  and  got  cold  in  the 
rain.  The  attempt  to  pass  urine  was  unsuccessful  and 
he  swallowed  a  tablespoonful  of  spts.  turpentine  which 
caused  a  hemorrhage  from  the  bowels  but  did  not 
start  the  urine.  The  attending  physician  had  tried 
catheters  of  different  kinds  and  sizes,  also  all  the  rem- 
edies he  could  think  of  before  I  arrived.  I  rang  the 
changes  on  all  the  remedies  I  thought  indicated,  also 
warm  baths,  relaxation  by  lobelia,  etc.,  but  he  gradu- 
ally grew  worse  until  uremic  convulsions  set  in.  I 
borrowed  the  hypodermic  syringe  of  the  doctor  with 
me  and  passed  the  needle  perpendicularly  down  into 
the  bladder,  attached  the  syringe  and  began  to  pump 
the  water  out  of  the  bladder.  In  a  few  minutes  the 
patient  turned  over  on  his  side  and  went  to  sleep.  In 
an  hour  he  woke  and  passed  a  large  quantity  of  urine. 
Such  a  case  a  doctor  may  not  see  once  in  a  lifetime. 
It  was  a  desperate  case  but  desperate  cases  demand 
desperate  remedies.  In  the  above  case  quick  action 
saved  the  man's  life. 


Definite  Medication  125 

Chronic  Cystitis.  In  chronic  cystitis  when  there  is 
itching  the  whole  length  of  the  urethra,  burning  and 
scalding  of  urine  with  constant  urging  to  urinate,  and 
the  passing  of  a  bloody,  ropy  mucus,  tincture  chim- 
aphila  umbelata  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops  in  a 
little  water  once  in  two  hours.  There  is  one  prescrip- 
tion which  has  enabled  me  to  cure  many  obstinate 
cases ;  it  is : 

^     Gelsemin,  gr.  one-sixteenth. 
Hamamelin,  gr.  one-eighth. 
Populin,  gr.  one-half. 

Mix.  This  amount  makes  one  tablet  or  pill.  One 
of  these  is  to  be  given  once  in  three  hours.  I  have 
never  used  this  prescription  without  benefit  to  my 
patients. 

In  a  case  of  cancer  of  the  bladder  which  I  saw  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  tenesmus  of  the  bladder  was 
an  obstinate  and  distressing  symptom,  I  put  terebin- 
thina,  third  decimal  dilution,  twenty  drops  in  half  a 
glass  of  water  and  gave  a  teaspoonful  once  in  half  an 
hour.  It  gave  relief  where  all  other  remedies  had 
failed.  For  uremic  convulsions  do  not  forget  cuprum 
arsenicum.  Dose,  two  grains  every  half  hour  of  the 
third  decimal  trituration. 

Gravel.  In  gravel  in  women  I  like  thlaspi  bursa 
pastorins,  when  there  is  frequent  desire  to  urinate  with 
a  heavy  brickdust,  phosphate  sediment ;  you  will  often 
find  such  cases  complicated  with  ascites  and  menor- 
rhagia  in  women.  Give  the  third  decimal  dilution  of  the 
above  remedy,  in  such  cases  and  you  will  be  pleased 
with  the  results.  Dose,  ten  drops  once  in  two  hours. 
When  the  urine  contains  an  excess  of  uric  acid,  and 


126  Definite  Medication 

there  is  pus  and  bloody  mucus,  also  dysuria  and  te- 
nesmus,  tincture  epigea  repens  is  the  remedy  to  be 
prescribed.  Dose,  twenty  drops  once  in  two  hours. 

Calculus  in  the  Bladder.  For  calculus  in  the  bladder 
the  best  remedy  is  Boro  Citrate  Magnesia.  Dissolve 
fifteen  grains  in  one  ounce  of  simple  syrup  and  give  a 
tablespoonful  once  a  day. 

Acute  Prostatitis.  Several  years  ago  I  was  called  to 
Maine  in  consultation  with  two  other  physicians.  The 
patient  was  a  man  sixty-three  years  old.  Upon  mak- 
ing an  examination  I  found  the  prostate  gland  en- 
larged, tender  and  painful ;  there  was  a  feeling  as  if  he 
was  sitting  on  a  ball.  The  catheter  had  to  be  used 
whenever  he  desired  to  urinate.  I  suggested  the  fol- 
lowing treatment : 

I£     Tr.  Staphisagria,  gtts.  xxx. 

Aqua,  £iv. 
Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

also 

^     Tr.  Gelsemium,  gtts.  xx. 
Aqua,  Jvi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

I  had  a  compress  applied  wet  with  warm  water  and 
muriate  of  ammonia  (a  drachm  of  ammonia  dissolved 
in  six  ounces  of  water)  and  kept  in  constant  contact 
with  the  inflamed  gland.  The  patient  was  to  drink 
freely  of  flaxseed  tea  to  render  the  urine  bland  and 
non-irritating.  Under  the  above  treatment  the  patient 
recovered  and  lived  for  twenty  years  afterwards. 
Many  elderly  men  die  from  such  conditions  for  the 
want  of  proper  treatment. 

Chronic    Prostatitis.     In     chronic     prostatitis     when 


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there  is  enlargement  of  the  gland,  throbbing,  aching, 
dull  pain  in  the  gland,  difficult  and  painful  urination, 
tincture  sabal  serrulata  will  prove  beneficial.  Dose, 
ten  drops  in  a  wine-glass  of  water  once  in  three  hours. 
In  prostatitis  when  there  is  a  feeling  of  dryness  and 
heat  in  the  gland  and  the  parts  feel  as  if  they  were 
full  of  sticks,  or  of  shooting,  knife-like  pains  up  the 
rectum — pain  so  severe  that  the  patient  groans,  you 
should  prescribe  tincture  sesculus  hippo.  Dose,  add 
thirty  drops  aesculus  hippo,  to  four  ounces  of  water. 
Of  this  mixture  have  your  patient  take  a  teaspoonful 
once  in  two  hours. 

In  prostatitis  of  old  men,  where  there  is  a  dribbling 
of  the  semen  and  prostatic  fluid,  with  loss  of  sexual 
power,  the  sixth  decimal  trituration  of  selenium  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  five  grains  night  and  morning. 

Haematuria,  In  haematuria  when  the  urine  is  mixed 
with  dark,  black  blood,  sediment  like  coffee  grounds, 
violent,  burning  drawing  in  the  kidney  and  bladder, 
terebinthina  is  the  drug  needed.  Dose,  place  twenty 
drops  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass  of 
water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  of  the  mixture  every  half 
hour. 

In  haematuria  with  bright,  red  blood  the  third  deci- 
mal trituration  of  ferri  phos.  may  be  used.  Add  five 
grains  to  a  cup  of  hot  water  and.  give  of  this  mixture 
two  teaspoonfuls  every  fifteen  minutes  until  bleeding 
is  checked.  Haematuria  with  considerable  arterial  ex- 
citement with  calculus  in  the  bladder  demands  tincture 
lycopus  virg.  Dose,  ten  drops  in  wine-glass  of  water 
once  in  two  hours. 

Diabetes.  Lactic  acid  is  indicated  in  this  condition 
when  there  is  great  thirst  and  voracious  hunger,  pro- 


128  Definite  Medication 

fuse  urine  loaded  with  sugar,  with  rheumatic  pains  in 
the  joints.  Dose,  one  teaspoonful  in  a  glass  of  water 
three  times  a  day. 

Chionanthus  is  indicated  in  diabetes  when  the  liver 
is  involved,  with  pain  in  the  right  hypochrondrium, 
cramp-like  pains  in  the  abdomen,  headache  in  the  fore- 
head over  the  eyes,  and  clay-colored  stools.  Prescribe 
it  as  follows : 

^     Tr.  Chionanthus,  3i. 
Aqua,  giv. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

In  some  forms  of  diabetes  there  is  a  drain  upon  the 
nervous  system  and  as  a  result  we  have  a  weakened 
nerve  power.  Phosphoric  acid  is  the  needed  remedy 
when  there  is  great  physical  weakness,  indifference  to 
living,  emaciation,  debility,  pain  in  the  top  of  the  head, 
large  quantity  of  clear  urine  passing  at  night.  In 
cases  with  these  symptoms  give  third  decimal  dilution 
of  phosphoric  acid.  Dose,  twenty  drops  in  a  glass  of 
water,  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  once  in  two  hours. 

In  diabetes  with  ulcers,  the  patient  passing  large 
quantity  of  urine,  you  should  remember  tincture  syzy- 
gium  jambol.  Dose,  three  drops  three  times  a  day. 
Nitrate  uranium,  third  decimal  trituration,  is  indicated 
in  diabetes  mellitus  when  there  are  symptoms  of  dys- 
pepsia present.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  three 
hours. 

In  diabetes  with  great  thirst,  passing  large  quantities 
of  urine  like  spring  water  I  have  obtained  good  results 
from  lycopus  virg.  Dose,  add  one  ounce  of  the  herb  to 
one  pint  of  hot  water,  make  an  infusion  and  give  a 
tablespoonful  four  times  a  day. 


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Spermatorrhea.  In  spermatorrhea  when  there  is  gen- 
eral debility  and  seminal  emissions  without  erections 
eryngium  aquaticum  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  two  grains 
of  the  third  decimal  trituration  three  times  a  day. 
When  with  the  nocturnal  emissions  we  have  dark 
rings  round  the  eyes,  headache,  incapacity  for  mental 
work,  lupulin  is  the  remedy  needed.  Dose,  two  grains 
of  the  first  decimal  trituration  three  times  a  day. 

In  seminal  emissions  with  lustful  dreams,  weak 
knees,  cold  genitals  and  great  despondency  tincture 
dioscorea  is  needed.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  of  dios- 
corea  to  a  half  glass  of  water  and  give  the  patient  a 
teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  every  two  hours.  In  ob- 
stinate cases  of  spermatorrhea  I  have  made  fine  cures 
by  using  this  prescription  : 

I>     Sulph.  Strychnine,  gr.  one-thirtieth. 
Gelsemin,  gr.  one-sixteenth. 

Mix.  Sig.     Give  one  pill,  this  size,  at  bedtime. 

I  recall  one  case  which  came  to  me ;  a  man  seventy 
years  old,  married,  who  had  been  a  victim  of  self-abuse 
for  years ;  about  three  months  before  I  saw  him  he  had 
a  shock  of  paralysis.  I  found  a  hard  tense  pulse,  ver- 
tigo, cold  hands  and  feet ;  he  had  good  use  of  arms  and 
hands.  I  gave  him  small  doses  of  veratrum  to  relieve 
the  nerve  tension  and  equalize  the  circulation,  also  kali 
phos.,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  once 
in  two  hours,  to  strengthen  his  nerves.  I  had  to  lec- 
ture him  about  the  habit  of  self-abuse.  He  improved 
very  much  but  died  about  two  years  later;  the  cause 
of  his  death  I  cannot  tell  as  I  did  not  learn  any  par- 
ticulars. 


130  Definite  Medication 

"Kidney  Complaint."  "  Kidney  complaint "  as  it  is 
called  and  in  the  form  we  meet  with  in  every  day  prac- 
tice calls  for  one  of  three  remedies,  and  the  better  we 
understand  the  indications  for  these  remedies  the  more 
successful  will  we  be  in  the  treatment  of  such  cases. 

When  a  patient  complains  of  a  bruised  pain  with 
stiffness  and  lameness  across  the  small  of  the  back, 
rises  from  his  seat  with  difficulty,  back  aches  worse 
when  sitting  or  lying,  a  feeling  of  painful  pressing  in 
the  region  of  the  kidneys  which  extends  to  the  bladder 
and  urethra,  berberis  vulgaris  is  the  remedy  indicated. 
Dose,  place  twenty  drops  of  the  tincture  into  a  cup  of 
water  and  direct  the  patient  to  take  a  tablespoonful  of 
it  once  in  two  hours. 

Another  patient  may  have  dark  brown  urine — the 
color  of  French  brandy,  it  has  a  strong  urinous  odor, 
the  clothing  smells  of  the  urine.  The  odor  is  horrible 
at  the  time  of  passing  and  afterwards,  but  leaves  no 
deposit  in  the  vessel.  These  symptoms  indicate  the 
use  of  benzoic  acid.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  of  the 
third  decimal  dilution  to  half  a  glass  of  water  and  give 
your  patient  a  tablespoonful  of  the  preparation  once  in 
two  hours. 

Again  we  will  find  cases  where  the  patient  has  more 
strangury  than  those  which  call  for  the  berberis  vulg., 
the  urine  is  brownish — black  or  smoky  in  appearance, 
showing  an  admixture  of  blood ;  there  may  be  burning 
and  smarting  in  passing  the  urine.  These  symptoms 
indicate  the  need  of  terebinthina.  Dose,  twenty  drops 
of  the  third  decimal  dilution  in  a  glass  of  water;  tea- 
spoonful  every  two  hours. 

Acute  Bright 's  Disease.  Let  us  not  be  frightened  by 
the  name  but  think  of  it  as  a  case  of  inflammation,  and 


Definite  Medication  131 

treat  it  as  such.  In  these  cases  we  have  something 
more  than  a  simple  inflammation.  The  constant  drain 
upon  the  system  from  the  kidneys  has  caused  a  weak- 
ened vitality  and  an  enfeebled  nerve  power.  This 
should  give  us  the  key  to  the  situation.  Where  there 
is  frequent  and  scanty  urination,  burning  and  scalding 
in  the  urinary  tract,  heavy  dull  aching  pains  in  region 
of  the  kidneys,  one  remedy  presents  itself  to  our  minds, 
viz. : — tincture  triticum  repens.  Dose,  ten  drops  once 
in  three  hours. 

When  there  is  constant  desire  to  urinate,  urging  be- 
fore and  after  urination,  only  a  few  drops  pass  at  a 
time,  cantharis  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops,  third 
decimal  dilution,  once  in  two  hours.  To  strengthen 
the  kidney  structure  by  relieving  it  of  the  destructive 
changes  going  on  in  this  organ,  kali  mur.,  third  deci- 
mal, is  the  remedy.  Dose,  place  ten  grains  in  a  glass 
of  water  and  prescribe  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 

A  medicated  bath  will  prove  a  useful  adjunct  in  the 
treatment  of  these  cases.  Epsom  salts  is  the  best  salt 
that  we  can  use.  Add  one  ounce  of  the  salt  to  a  pint 
of  water  or  one  pound  of  the  salt  to  the  usual  amount 
of  water  for  a  tub  bath.  The  patients  should  bathe 
themselves  all  over  with  this  liquid.  It  opens  the 
pores  of  the  skin,  neutralizes  the  toxins  on  the  surface 
of  the  body,  soothes  the  tired  nerves  and  helps  the 
patients  to  get  a  good  night's  sleep.  A  bath  of  this 
kind  should  be  taken  three  times  a  week  in  chronic  dis- 
eases, every  night  or  twice  in  twenty-four  hours  in 
acute  diseases.  The  patient  should  be  directed  to 
scrub  the  surface  of  the  body  thoroughly  to  remove  all 
of  the  gummy  sticky  substance  on  the  skin,  leaving  it 
smooth  as  velvet.  I  have  used  this  bath  for  my  pa- 


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tients  for  several  years  and  never  without  benefit  to 
them.  The  idea  of  the  Epsom  salt  bath  comes  from 
Dr.  William  Burgess,  of  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  The 
profession  owes  this  physician  a  great  debt  of  grati- 
tude for  his  discovery.  Let  us  give  honor  to  whom 
honor  is  due. 

The  weakness  of  the  nervous  system  calls  for  kali 
phos.,  third  decimal.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two 
hours.  The  more  albumin  there  is  in  the  urine  the 
stronger  the  indication  for  calcarea  phos.  This  drug 
supplies  the  deficiency  of  the  lime  and  arrests  the  dis- 
charge of  albumin.  Use  the  sixth  decimal  trituration. 
Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  These  two 
remedies  are  especially  indicated  in  this  diseased  con- 
dition and  may  be  given  in  alternation.  Pain  in  the 
kidneys  with  discharge  of  pus  calls  for  calcarea  sulph. 
Use  the  second  decimal  trituration.  Dose,  three  grains 
once  in  three  hours. 

Chronic  Bright's  Disease.  The  Eclectic  physicians  of 
forty  years  ago  placed  great  reliance  upon  helonias 
dioca  in  the  treatment  of  Bright's  disease,  and  it  is  just 
as  useful  to-day  as  it  was  then.  I  like  a  tablet  made 
from  the  following  formula: 

1$     Helonin,  gr.  one-fourth. 
Chelonin,  gr.  one-half. 
Iron  by  Hydrogen,  gr.  one. 

Mix.  Make  one  tablet.  Sig.  A  tablet  once  in  three 
hours.  It  will  diminish  the  albumin  in  the  urine,  im- 
prove the  digestion  and  strengthen  the  patient ;  or  the 
helonin  may  be  given  alone  in  doses  of  one-half  grain, 


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once  in  two  hours.     It  will  diminish  the  albumin  in  the 
urine. 

Renal  Colic.  In  renal  colic  tincture  dioscorea  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  sixty  drops  to  a  wine-glass  of  hot 
water  every  hour  till  relieved. 


CHAPTER  VIII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  THE  MALE  ORGANS  OF  GENERATION 
Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  VIII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  THE  MALE  ORGANS  OF  GENERATION 

GONORRHEA.     In  the  treatment  of  gonorrhea 
I  have  always  depended  upon  internal  treat- 
ment and  have  never  used  any  form  of  injec- 
tions.    The  following  prescription  covers  the  indica- 
tions for  the  acute  stage : 

I£     Tr.  Gelsemium. 

Tr.  Canabis  sativa,  a.  a.  3ss. 
Spts.  Nitre  Dulce,  Ji. 
Aqua  q.  s.  ad,  -$vi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

In  all  the  years  of  my  practice  I  have  learned  to  de- 
pend upon  the  above  prescription  for  acute  gonorrhea. 
In  the  chronic  stage  with  a  discharge  of  thick  yellow 
pus-like  matter  cubeba  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three 
tablets  of  the  second  decimal  trituration  once  in  two 
hours.  A  greenish  yellow  discharge  calls  for  natrum 
sulph.,  third  decimal,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours. 
When  there  is  a  very  slight  discharge,  just  enough  to 
close  up  the  orifice  of  the  urethra  in  the  morning,  the 
organs  are  flaccid  with  frequent  seminal  emissions 
sepia,  sixth  decimal  trituration  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
three  tablets  once  in  three  hours. 

Orchitis.  If  this  trouble  is  caused  by  metastasis  from 
the  mumps,  pulsatilla  is  the  remedy.  I  like  the  fol- 
lowing prescription : 


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^     Tr.  Pulsatilla,  gtts.  xx. 
Tr.  Phytolacca,  gtts.  xxx. 
Aqua  q.  s.  ad,  §vi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Apply  locally  a  wash  made  as  described  below,  to 
the  swelled  testicle. 

I£     Muriate  Ammonium,  3ii. 
Fl.  Ext.  Phytolacca  root. 
Alcohol  a.  a.,  §i. 
Aqua  q.  s.  ad,  -£vi. 

Mix.  Sig.  Wet  cloths  with  the  solution  and  keep 
constantly  applied.  When  we  have  orchitis  from  sup- 
pressed gonorrhea  clematis  erecta  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
thirty  drops  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  of  tincture 
clematis  in  four  ounces  of  water,  giving  a  teaspoonful 
of  the  mixture  every  hour. 

Induration  of  the  Testicle.  Here  the  testicle  feels  as  if 
it  was  crushed  and  is  swollen  with  drawing  pains 
which  extend  to  the  thighs  and  abdomen.  With  these 
symptoms  rhododendron  is  the  remedy,  especially 
when  complicated  with  rheumatism.  Dose,  tincture 
rhododendron  fifteen  drops,  water  four  ounces.  Mix 
and  give  teaspoonful  every  hour.  I  have  treated  pa- 
tients whose  testicles  had  been  kicked  by  a  horse  or 
otherwise  injured.  In  such  cases  I  apply  a  poultice 
composed  of  equal  parts  of  slippery  elm,  flaxseed  and 
lobelia  seed  pulverized  fine,  and  mixed  with  warm 
water.  This  should  be  kept  constantly  applied  to  the 
inflamed  testicle.  It  will  take  down  the  swelling  every 
time.  Mullein  oil  applied  as  a  liniment,  in  such  cases, 
is  a  grand  remedy  but  rather  expensive. 


Definite  Medication  .       139 

In  enlarged  and  indurated  testicles,  in  the  third 
stage  of  syphilis,  we  must  not  forget  the  double  chlo- 
ride of  gold  and  sodium.  It  is  the  remedy  indicated  in 
such  cases,  especially  if  the  patient  has  had  mercurial 
treatment.  Dose,  three  grains  of  the  third  decimal 
trituration,  one  hour  after  each  meal.  This  drug  will 
reduce  the  enlarged  testicle  and  improve  the  general 
health. 

Buboes.  In  buboes,  in  the  forming  stage,  phytolacca 
is  the  remedy.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  of  tincture 
phytolacca  to  a  cup  of  water.  Mix  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour  alternated  with  the  third  decimal 
trituration  of  kali  mur.,  five  grains  of  the  kali  mur.  in  a 
glass  of  hot  water  and  give,  after  mixing,  a  teaspoonful 
once  an  hour.  We  can  sometimes  prevent  inflamma- 
tion by  painting  the  swelling  with  equal  parts  of  tinc- 
ture iodine  and  tincture  phytolacca,  but  if  it  begins  to 
"  beat  and  throb  "  apply  the  poultice  of  equal  parts  of 
slippery  elm,  flaxseed  and  lobelia  seed  as  mentioned 
under  orchitis.  As  a  poultice  for  swellings  and  inflam- 
mation it  stands  without  a  rival.  The  poultice  should 
be  changed  every  two  hours.  If  it  does  not  open  itself 
it  may  have  to  be  lanced.  The  second  decimal  of  cal- 
carea  sulph.  can  be  given  to  help  the  healing  process. 
Dose,  three  tablets  every  three  hours. 

Chancre.  I  like  the  application  of  tincture  chloride  of 
iron.  Paint  it  on  sore  once  or  twice  a  day.  To  com- 
plete the  cure  use  the  "  mild  zinc  ointment " ;  apply  it, 
on  soft  cloth,  three  times  a  day.  It  is  one  of  the  fast- 
est healing  salves  ever  made. 

Balanitis.  In  inflammation  of  the  head  of  the  penis 
and  the  mucous  membranes  lining  the  foreskin — parts 
tender  and  swollen — you  should  first  wash  the  parts 


140  Definite  Medication 

very  thoroughly  with  plenty  of  castile  soap  and  warm 
water,  then  apply  every  three  hours  a  wash  composed 
of  eight  grains  of  zinc  sulph.  to  four  ounces  of  water, 
to  the  swollen  parts. 

Stricture  of  the  Urethra.  In  stricture  of  the  urethra 
the  treatment  will  require  some  patience.  Internally 
we  have  one  remedy  especially  indicated,  when  there  is 
an  irritable  inflamed  urethra,  stream  of  urine  divided 
into  two  or  three  small  streams,  difficult  and  painful 
urination;  this  remedy  is  the  chimaphila  umbellata. 
Dose,  add  forty  drops  of  the  tincture  chimaphila  to  two 
ounces  of  water  and  give  ten  drops  of  this  mixture 
every  three  hours.  Direct  the  patient  to  inject  thirty 
drops  each  of  Fl.  Ext.  gelsemium  and  water  into  the 
urethra  four  times  a  day.  This  injection  should  be 
retained  as  long  as  possible.  At  night  the  patient  will 
be  able  to  pass  water  more  freely.  Then  prepare  a 
medicated  bougie  as  follows : 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Gelsemium. 
Aqua,  a.  a.  gtts.  xxx. 
Pulv.   Gum  Acacia  q.  s.  to  make  a 
thick  paste. 

Dip  the  bougie  into  the  paste,  allow  it  to  dry,  then 
repeat  until  your  bougie  is  about  the  size  of  a  No.  5. 
Pass  it  up  to  and  beyond  the  stricture  if  possible;  al- 
low it  to  remain  one  hour.  The  injections  should  be 
used  each  day  until  a  bougie  the  size  of  a  No.  10  can  be 
passed  without  any  difficulty,  when  you  may  feel  as- 
sured that  you  have  conquered  the  stricture. 

If  the  above  treatment  is  carefully  followed,  good  re- 
sults will  be  obtained  in  from  ten  to  twelve  days. 

Hydrocele.     In  my  own  experience  and  in  that  of 


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many  physicians  who  have  consulted  me  I  have  found 
that  there  is  one  remedy  par  excellence.  That  is  the 
Normal  Liquid  Ergot  (Parke  Davis  &  Co.).  Remove 
the  fluid  from  the  scrotum  with  trocar  and  canula,  then 
inject  two  fluid  drachms  of  Normal  Liquid  Ergot  into 
the  cavity.  It  will  re-establish  the  balance  between 
secretion  and  absorption.  One  injection  is  generally 
sufficient  and  there  is  very  little  discomfort  from  the 
use  of  the  remedy.  Many  fine  cures  have  been  made 
with  this  remedy  in  old  men  where  the  disease  had 
troubled  them  for  many  years.  Apis  mel  is  the  rem- 
edy indicated  where  there  is  considerable  edema  of  the 
parts.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the  third  decimal  dilution 
once  in  two  hours. 

Syphilis.  In  an  extensive  practice  with  this  disease 
in  a  large  city,  treating  patients  from  every  State  in 
the  Union,  I  have  been  led  to  believe  very  firmly  that 
this  disease  can  be  cured  by  our  vegetable  remedies. 
I  have  been  forced  to  the  conclusion  that  mercury  in 
any  form  does  not  cure  the  disease  but  only  masks  it 
so  that  it  will  appear  again  later.  The  most  obstinate 
cases  I  have  had  to  treat  had  been  dosed  with  mercury 
in  some  form. 

Many  years  ago  a  lady  came  into  my  office ;  she  was 
a  member  of  a  prominent  family  in  the  town.  She 
showed  me  from  a  book  she  had  in  her  hand  the  symp- 
toms of  syphilis.  "  These  are  my  symptoms,"  she  said 
and  began  to  cry.  Her  hair  had  all  come  off  from  the 
top  of  her  head,  she  had  sores  in  her  mouth,  sore 
throat  and  in  short  her  system  was  thoroughly  satu- 
rated with  the  syphilitic  poison.  It  was  the  old  story 
"  the  drummer  and  the  girl."  "  Can  you  do  anything 
for  me  ?  "  she  asked.  "  I  am  nearly  frantic  with  this 


142  Definite  Medication 

fearful  trouble."  I  told  her  I  could  cure  her.  I  first 
gave  her  a  pill  composed  of  corydalin  one-half  grain 
and  sulph.  quinine  one  grain.  She  took  one  of  these 
pills  every  two  hours.  I  followed  this  treatment  for 
two  weeks,  then  omitted  the  quinine.  In  two  months 
I  felt  that  I  had  the  disease  under  control.  To  make 
assurance  doubly  sure  (as  she  intended  to  be  married 
and  wanted  to  be  sure  she  was  well  before  taking  the 
plunge  into  matrimony)  I  gave  her  the  following 
syrup : 

1$     Stillingia,  Spdi. 
Podophyllum. 
Phytolacca  root. 
Iris  versicola,  a.  a.  §iv. 
Alcohol,  Oiv. 
White  Sugar,  ft>s.  ii. 

Bruise  the  herbs  and  macerate  in  the  alcohol  for  ten 
days ;  strain  the  mixture  and  add  the  sugar.  Dose, 
from  one  teaspoonful  to  a  tablespoonful  three  times  a 
day,  or  sufficient  to  keep  the  bowels  a  little  loose. 
This  syrup  stands  without  a  rival  as  a  cure  for  syphilis. 
I  kept  her  on  the  above  syrup  for  three  or  four  months, 
until  I  felt  sure  the  poison  was  all  out  of  her  system. 
Then  she  was  discharged  cured.  Later  she  married 
and  although  I  watched  the  case  carefully  for  years 
afterwards  no  signs  of  the  disease  appeared. 

In  the  treatment  of  this  loathsome  disease  there  are 
certain  remedies  which  are  especially  indicated  and 
will  meet  certain  conditions  as  they  arise  in  your  prac- 
tice, for  the  Eclectic  materia  medica  is  rich  in  remedies 
that  do  have  a  curative  effect  upon  syphilis. 

For  the  sore  mouth  of  syphilis,  mucous  patches,  ul- 


Definite  Medication  143 

cerative  fissures,  lips  dry,  swollen  and  cracked,  breath 
foul,  green  clinkers  from  the  nose  in  the  morning,  you 
may  give  the  third  decimal  dilution  of  nitric  acid. 
Dose,  add  fifteen  drops  to  a  glass  of  water,  giving  the 
patient  a  teaspoonful  of  the  mixture  once  in  two  hours. 

In  the  sore  throat  with  ulcers  which  look  as  if  they 
were  cut  out  with  a  punch  and  the  patient  is  hawking 
up  tough  stringy  mucus,  bi-chromate  of  potash,  the 
third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  once 
in  three  hours.  A  good  gargle  for  these  throats  may 
be  made  by  adding  one-half  drachm  chlorate  potash 
and  five  grains  sulphate  zinc  to  a  goblet  of  warm  water. 
Use  this  gargle  once  in  two  hours. 

For  the  bone  pains,  worse  at  night  and  during  damp 
weather — mostly  in  the  legs,  with  a  bruised  feeling, 
phytolacca  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  add  one-half  drachm 
to  five  ounces  of  water,  giving  a  teaspoonful  four  times 
a  day.  For  syphilitic  rheumatism  it  is  the  remedy. 

For  syphilitic  nodes,  falling  of  the  hair,  hectic  fever, 
eruptions  on  the  body,  corydalis  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
ten  drops  tincture  corydalis  once  in  three  hours. 

In  syphilis  where  there  is  a  skin  disease  of  a  scaly 
pustular  character  with  phagedenic  ulcerations,  ber- 
beris  aquifolia  is  the  remedy.  It  will  clear  the  skin 
and  heal  up  the  ulcers.  Dose,  tincture  berberis  aqui, 
ten  drops  four  times  a  day.  For  those  painful  tuber- 
cles that  come  upon  the  nose  and  face,  much  relief  will 
be  given  the  patient  by  the  following  prescription : 

IJ     Fl.  Ext.  Aconite,  3ii. 
Fl.  Ext.  Conium,  §ss. 
Glycerine  q.  s.  ad,  §ii. 

Mix.  Sig.     Apply  three  times  a  day. 


144  Definite  Medication 

Alopecia.  The  constitutional  treatment  will  stop  the 
hair  from  coming  out  but  the  ladies  generally  like  to 
have  something  they  can  apply  to  make  the  hair  grow. 
To  these  I  give  the  following  prescription  which  is  as 
good  as  any  of  the  many  hair  tonics : 

^     Tr.  Cantharis,  §i. 
Castor  oil,  §iv. 
Oil  Burgamont. 
Oil  lemon. 

Oil  Lavender,  a.  a.  5ii. 
Alcohol,  §xii. 

Mix.  Sig.  Apply  to  the  scalp  night  and  morning 
with  slight  friction.  There  are  two  important  points 
in  the  treatment  of  this  disease  which  must  not  be  for- 
gotten. First,  the  patient  must  have  a  free  movement 
of  the  bowels  once  a  day.  Second,  have  the  patient 
take  a  medicated  bath  of  the  Epsom  salts  (one  ounce 
salt  to  one  pint  of  water)  three  times  a  week. 

One  writer  has  said  in  speaking  of  a  doctor  who  had 
reported  cases  of  syphilis  as  cured,  "  That  the  cures 
were  more  apparent  than  real."  This  seems  to  me  a 
pretty  fine  distinction.  I  have  watched  many  cases  of 
syphilis  that  I  have  cured,  some  of  them  have  died  of 
old  age,  and  as  they  never  showed  any  symptoms  of 
the  disease  during  their  lifetime  we  may  safely  con- 
clude that  the  cures  were  real  not  apparent. 

One  of  the  principal  things  that  has  checked  the 
wheels  of  medical  progress  is  the  habit  of  trying  to 
belittle  any  remedy  or  any  method  of  curing  a  disease. 
Why  not  be  manly  and  honest  and  give  a  doctor  credit 
for  what  he  has  done  or  at  least  give  him  credit  for 
what  he  is  trying  to  do  for  poor  suffering  humanity. 


Definite  Medication  145 

Varicocele.  In  dilation  of  the  spermatic  veins  I  use 
locally  the  distilled  extract  of  hamamelis ;  apply  it  full 
strength  three  times  a  day.  The  internal  remedies 
should  be  tincture  pulsatilla  nigricans  and  tincture 
hamamelis.  Dose,  of  the  pulsatilla,  add  twenty  drops 
to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  of  the 
mixture  every  two  hours.  Dose  of  hamamelis,  five 
drops  once  in  two  hours.  The  latter  should  be  alter- 
nated with  the  former. 


CHAPTER  IX 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES   FOR  THE    EYE   AND    EAR 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  IX 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  EYE  AND  EAR 

CONJUNCTIVITIS.     In  the  simple  form  of  this 
disease,  bathing  the  eyes  with  warm  water  and 
distilled  extract  of  witch  hazel  will  be  sufficient 
for  the  local  treatment,  with  ferri  phos.  as  the  internal 
remedy.     Dose,  third  decimal  trituration,  ten  grains  in 
a  cup  of  water,  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.     When 
there  is  considerable  redness  and  inflammation  in  the 
eye,  I  like  an  "  eye  wash  "  made  from  the  following 
prescription : 

I£     Sulph.  Zinc. 

Sulph.  Morphia,  a.  a.  gr.  i. 
Aqua  rosae. 
Glycerine,  a.  a.  §ss. 

Mix.  Sig.  Drop  two  or  three  drops  in  the  eye  three 
times  a  day.  I  have  used  this  as  an  eye  wash  since 
1871  and  it  is  an  excellent  one.  Sulphur,  third  deci- 
mal, three  tablets  once  in  three  hours  will  hasten  the 
cure.  When  the  meibomian  glands  are  much  affected 
and  the  edges  of  the  lids  are  red  and  swollen,  the  se- 
cretion forming  yellow  crusts  on  the  cilise  during  sleep, 
hepar  sulph.  should  be  prescribed.  Dose,  three  tablets 
of  the  third  decimal  trituration  every  two  hours. 

Purulent  Conjunctivitis.  The  "  eye  wash  "  as  men- 
tioned under  the  acute  form  will  be  found  useful  in  this 
disease.  In  infants  wash  the  eyes  with  warm  water 


150  Definite  Medication 

and  distilled  extract  of  witch  hazel ;  then  apply  nitrate 
silver  (one  grain  to  the  ounce  of  water)  locally.  In- 
ternally give  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  tritura- 
tion  of  hepar  sulphur  night  and  morning;  also  add  five 
drops  tincture  rhus  tox  to  four  ounces  of  water  and 
give  in  teaspoonful  doses  every  two  hours. 

Gonorrheal  Conjunctivitis.  First  apply  warm  water  to 
the  eye,  containing  borax  five  grains  to  the  ounce ; 
cleanse  the  eye  with  this  and  then  apply  a  five  per  cent, 
solution  of  nitrate  of  silver.  For  the  swelling  and  in- 
flammation aconite  is  the  internal  remedy.  Add  five 
drops  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
every  hour.  Thuja  should  be  prescribed  for  the  con- 
stitutional disease.  Dose,  tincture  thuja  gtts.  xx,  aqua 
5iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 

Scrofulous  Conjunctivitis.  Internally  you  should  give 
this  prescription: 

I£     Comp.  Syr.  Stillingia,  §viii. 

Iodide  Potash,  3ii. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  three  times  a  day. 
For  a  local  application  I  like  the  following  receipt : 
I£     Lloyd's  Ergot,  gtts.  xv. 

Sol.  Boric  Acid  (6  grains  to  50 »  <!• s- 
giss. 

Mix.  Sig.     Two  drops  in  the  eye  every  three  hours. 

Catarrhal  Conjunctivitis.  In  the  first  stage  belladonna 
is  indicated  for  the  headache  and  pain  in  the  eyes. 
Add  ten  drops  tincture  belladonna  to  four  ounces  of 
water  and  give  of  this  mixture  a  teaspoonful  every 
hour.  When  there  is  much  congestion  of  the  eye  and 
photophobia,  lachrymation  of  an  acrid,  excoriating  na- 


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ture,  which  causes  the  eyelids  to  swell  and  ulcerate, 
tincture  euphrasia  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  put  fifteen 
drops  of  the  tincture  euphrasia  into  half  a  glass  of 
water,  giving  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  One  grain  of 
muriate  of  hydrastis  to  an  ounce  of  water  is  a  good 
local  application.  You  can  also  use  the  wash  spoken 
of  above. 

Ulcerative  Conjunctivitis.  For  a  local  application  in 
this  affection  I  like  the  eucalyptus.  Add  one  drachm 
of  the  Fl.  Ext.  eucalyptus  to  one  ounce  of  distilled 
water  and  drop  a  few  drops  into  the  affected  eye  three 
or  four  times  a  day.  It  will  relieve  the  pain  and  give  a 
feeling  of  ease  and  comfort. 

Granular  Conjunctivitis.  Locally  apply  the  sesqui 
carb.  potash  twice  a  week.  Then  wash  out  the  eye 
with  water  after  each  application,  using  an  eye  syringe. 
Twice  a  day  apply  an  ointment  made  of  yellow  oxide 
mercury  two  grains,  vaseline  one  ounce.  Touch  the 
granulations  with  this  ointment  night  and  morning. 
For  an  internal  remedy  kali  mur.,  sixth  decimal,  is  the 
best.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours. 

Rheumatic  Ophthalmia.  For  this  condition  with  the 
itching  pains  and  diffused  inflammation  we  will  give 
aconite.  Add  five  drops  tincture  aconite  to  four  ounces 
of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  of  the  mixture  every 
hour.  In  alternation  you  should  prescribe  tincture 
spigelia  gtts.  xv,  aqua  §iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful 
once  an  hour. 

Iritis.  For  this  affection  the  best  internal  remedy  is 
jaborandi.  It  allays  inflammation,  controls  spasms  of 
the  muscle  of  accommodation  and  will  absorb  adhe- 
sions. Dose,  tincture  jaborandi,  gtts.  xx,  aqua  §iv. 
Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 


152  Definite  Medication 

As  a  local  application  sulph.  atropia  must  be  used 
from  the  very  start.  It  should  be  applied  strong 
enough  to  insure  full  dilation  of  the  pupil,  and  suffi- 
ciently often  to  continue  the  paralysis  of  the  ciliary 
muscles.  For  patients  to  use  at  home  it  may  be  made 
in  the  strength  of  four  grains  to  the  ounce  of  water. 
It  should  be  used  three  times  a  day. 

Choroiditis.  For  the  burning  and  dryness  in  the  eye 
belladonna  is  indicated.  Add  five  drops  tincture  bella- 
donna to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  the  patient  a 
teaspoonful  every  hour.  Kali  mur.,  third  decimal, 
should  be  given  in  alternation  as  an  absorbent  of  the 
plastic  exudates.  Dose,  ten  grains  in  a  cup  of  water ; 
teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

When  the  pain  is  severe  in  the  eye-ball,  feels  as  if  it 
were  being  pressed  asunder,  shooting  pains  from  the 
right  eye  to  the  occiput,  prunus  spinosa  is  the  remedy 
needed.  Dose,  tincture  prunus,  first  decimal,  gtts.  xx, 
in  half  a  glass  of  water ;  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Suppurative  Choroiditis.  In  cases  of  suppurative 
choroiditis  rhus  tox  is  the  remedy  called  for,  used  in 
the  following  manner.  Add  ten  drops  tincture  rhus 
tox  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  the  patient  a  tea- 
spoonful  of  the  mixture  every  hour.  Chronic  head- 
aches due  to  choroiditis  may  be  cured  by  tincture  viola 
odorata.  Dose,  five  drops,  second  decimal  dilution, 
once  in  two  hours. 

Ulceration  of  the  Cornea.  The  sulphide  calcium  is  in- 
dicated where  there  is  much  suppuration.  Dose  three 
tablets,  of  the  second  decimal  trituration,  once  in  three 
hours. 

If  there  is  much  frontal  headache,  belladonna  is  in- 
dicated. Add  ten  drops  tincture  belladonna  to  four 


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ounces  of  water  and  give  teaspoonful  doses  every  hour. 
If  complicated  with  syphilis  give  tincture  corydalis  ten 
drops  once  in  three  hours.  The  ulcers  should  be 
touched  with  a  five  per  cent,  solution  of  nitrate  silver ; 
it  will  cause  rapid  healing  of  the  ulcer.  In  corneal 
ulcers  where  the  secretions  are  of  a  stringy  nature  bi- 
chromate potash  third  decimal  trituration,  is  indicated. 
Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours. 

Retinitis.  Ferri  phos.,  third  decimal  trituration,  is 
the  first  remedy  to  be  thought  of  in  this  affection.  Add 
ten  grains  to  a  glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
every  fifteen  minutes.  Belladonna  is  indicated  where 
there  is  a  red  conjunctival  streak  along  the  line  of 
fissure  of  the  lids.  Dose,  tincture  belladonna  gtts.  x, 
aqua  four  ounces ;  one  teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 
Kali  mur.,  third  decimal  trituration,  should  be  given  in 
the  second  stage  of  effusion.  Dose,  ten  grains  in  a  cup 
of  water ;  give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  The  dim 
vision  and  weakness  of  nerve  power  calls  for  picric 
acid.  Use  the  sixth  decimal.  It  is  especially  called 
for  in  this  disease.  Dose,  three  tablets  every  two 
hours.  If  the  trouble  is  complicated  with  syphilis  or 
Bright's  disease,  select  the  proper  remedies  indicated 
(for  the  indications  see  those  headings). 

In  detachment  of  the  retina  due  to  rheumatism,  so- 
dium salicylate  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five  grains,  sec- 
ond decimal  trituration,  once  in  two  hours. 

Keratitis.  In  diffuse  keratitis  apis  mel  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  tincture  apis  mel  gtts.  x,  aqua  ounces  iv.  Mix. 
Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  hour.  Kali  mur.,  third  deci- 
mal trituration,  should  be  given  in  alternation.  Dose, 
put  ten  grains  in  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  drachm 
doses  once  an  hour.  The  principal  remedy  to  be  de- 


154  Definite  Medication 

pended  on  is  aurum  metallicum.  Dose,  three  tablets, 
third  decimal  trituration,  night  and  morning.  This 
remedy  has  made  some  good  cures  of  interstitial  kera- 
titis  in  syphilitic  patients. 

Hepar  sulph.,  third  decimal,  is  the  remedy  for  sup- 
puration and  abscess  of  the  cornea.  Dose,  three  tab- 
lets once  in  two  hours. 

Corneal  Opacities.  When  the  opacity  is  one  of  the 
after  effects  of  ophthalmia  in  scrofulous  patients,  tinc- 
ture cannabis  sativa  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  add  twenty 
drops  to  a  half  glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
of  this  mixture  every  two  hours.  The  third  decimal 
trituration  of  bi-chromate  potash  has  helped  to  cure 
some  patients.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours. 
Calcarea  flouride  is  the  main  remedy  to  be  depended 
on  to  gradually  cure  the  opacity.  Dose,  three  tablets 
four  times  a  day.  Resorcin  powder  is  the  best  local 
remedy  for  specks  on  the  cornea. 

Sty.  Pulsatilla  is  indicated  for  the  acute  stage. 
Dose,  add  twenty  drops  tincture  pulsatilla  to  four 
ounces  of  water ;  give  of  this  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two 
hours.  After  the  acute  stage  has  passed  give  three 
tablets  every  three  hours  of  the  second  decimal  of  cal- 
carea  sulph.  to  complete  the  cure. 

Asthenopia.  When  the  eyes  cannot  be  used  very 
long  at  a  time  without  fatigue,  pain  in  the  head  and 
eyes  from  reading  or  fine  sewing,  eyes  burn,  feel 
strained,  hot  like  a  ball  of  fire,  ruta  graveoleus  is  the 
remedy  needed.  Dose,  tincture  ruta  ten  drops  to  water 
four  ounces ;  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 
When  the  eyes  feel  stiff  and  burn  or  feel  cold,  better 
when  in  the  cold  air  or  bathed  with  cold  water,  worse 
in  the  sunlight,  asarum  europaeum  is  the  remedy  needed. 


Definite  Medication  155 

Dose,  tincture  asarum,  first  decimal,  twenty  drops  in 
half  a  glass  of  water,  teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 
When  the  asthenopia  is  caused  by  uterine  troubles 
sepia  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  one  grain  of  the  third  deci- 
mal trituration  once  in  three  hours. 

In  nervous  affections  of  the  lids  and  muscular  asthe- 
nopia, strychnine  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  one-thirtieth 
grain  before  each  meal  and  at  bedtime.  If  there  is 
pain  only  when  the  eyes  are  used  kali  carbonicum,  sixth 
decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  every 
three  hours. 

Oculo  Motor  Paresis.  In  oculo  motor  paresis  if  caused 
by  cold  damp  weather  rhus  tox  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
five  drops  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  once  in  three 
hours.  If  from  dry  cold  air  causticum  is  the  medicine 
indicated.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal 
once  in  three  hours. 

Myopia.  In  acquired  myopia  from  ciliary  spasm, 
also  night  blindness,  contracting  of  the  pupils  and 
twitching  of  the  ocular  muscles,  physostigma  ven- 
enosum  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops  of  the  third 
decimal  dilution  once  in  two  hours. 

Amblyopia.  In  amblyopia  which  is  caused  by  a  cold 
aconite  is  indicated.  Dose,  add  five  drops  tincture 
aconite  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
once  an  hour. 

When  there  is  weak  eyesight,  objects  do  not  appear 
clear  or  distinct,  excited  staring  appearance  of  the  eyes, 
kali  phos.  is  the  needful  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets 
of  the  sixth  decimal  once  in  two  hours. 

In  amblyopia  from  the  use  of  tobacco  or  alcohol 
phosphoric  acid  combined  with  nux  vomica  should  be 
prescribed.  The  following  is  a  favorite  with  me : 


156  Definite  Medication 

^     Tr.  Nux  Vomica,  gtts.  x. 
Phosphoric  Acid,  3iv. 
Simple  Syrup  q.  s.  ad,  §iv. 

Mix.  Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  three  hours. 

Cataract.  In  dimness  of  vision  from  overstraining 
the  eyes,  and  in  flickering  and  sparks  before  the  eyes, 
calcarea  fluoride  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  sixth  decimal  trituration  every  three  hours.  In 
the  first  stages  of  cataract  when  the  letters  appear  red, 
phosphorus  in  one  one-hundredth  grain  doses  may  be 
given  three  times  a  day.  If  the  trouble  is  complicated 
with  skin  disease  the  third  decimal  of  iodide  sulphur  is 
the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours. 
When  caused  by  drying  up  the  perspiration  of  the  feet 
silicea,  sixth  decimal,  should  be  prescribed.  Dose, 
three  tablets,  three  times  a  day.  When  there  is  an  ap- 
pearance of  gauze  before  the  eyes,  or  a  fog  or  cloud 
causticum  is  the  needful  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  of 
the  third  decimal,  once  in  two  hours. 

Otalgia.  When  the  earache  is  accompanied  by  stick- 
ing pains  in  the  ears  which  goes  from  one  ear  to  the 
other,  plantago  major  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops 
of  the  second  decimal  dilution  every  hour.  Ferri  phos., 
third  decimal  may  be  given  in  alternation.  Dose,  add 
five  grains  to  a  half  a  cup  of  warm  water  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  every  fifteen  minutes.  If  the  pain  is  very 
severe,  child  screaming  with  the  pain,  give  tincture 
chamomilla.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  to  four  ounces 
of  water  and  give  teaspoonful  doses  every  half  hour. 
Apply  an  onion  poultice  over  the  affected  ear.  A  few 
drops  of  a  two  per  cent,  solution  of  cocaine  will  often 
give  quick  relief.  The  local  remedy  which  I  have  al- 


Definite  Medication  157 

ways  depended  upon  to  stop  earache,  and  I  have  never 
seen  it  fail,  is  to  take  a  tablespoonful  of  hot  water, 
sprinkle  some  black  pepper  into  the  water,  then  pour 
some  or  all  of  it  into  the  ear  where  the  pain  is ;  I  have 
seen  it  stop  the  pain  when  other  remedies  had  failed. 

Otitis.  The  best  remedy  for  the  severe  pain  is  acon- 
ite. Dose,  tincture  aconite,  first  decimal  dilution,  three 
drops  once  an  hour.  In  chronic  cases  with  boils  pre- 
scribe the  second  decimal  trituration  of  calcarea  sulph. 
Dose,  two  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  For  the  second 
stage  when  there  is  thickening  of  the  membranes  with 
deafness,  you  should  give  kali  mur.,  third  decimal. 
Dose,  place  ten  grains  in  a  glass  of  water  and  give  a 
teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  Cotton  moistened  with 
tincture  pulsatilla  and  placed  in  the  affected  ear  will 
give  great  relief  to  the  patient. 

Otorrhea.  If  there  is  a  chronic,  bad  smelling  dis- 
charge from  the  ear,  you  should  cleanse  the  ear  with 
warm  water  and  then  inject  eucalyptus  into  it,  using 
the  following  prescription : 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Eucalyptus,  gi. 
Aqua,  gi. 

Mix.  Sig.  Inject  one  drachm  into  the  ear  three 
times  a  day  with  an  ear  syringe.  Boracic  acid  is  good 
in  recent  discharges  from  the  ear.  Wet  a  small  piece 
of  cotton  in  glycerine,  then  dip  in  boracic  acid  and  in- 
sert it  into  the  affected  ear,  every  day.  If  there  is 
ulceration  of  the  ear,  pus  with  dirty  foul  odor  kali 
phos.,  sixth  decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tab- 
lets once  in  two  hours.  In  catarrh  of  the  ear  with  ear- 
ache and  a  thin,  yellow,  watery  discharge  kali  sulph. 
should  be  given.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  deci- 


158  Definite  Medication 

mal  every  two  hours.  When  caries  of  the  bone  has 
occurred  silicea  first  decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
one  grain  every  three  hours. 

Polypus  Aurium.  Calcarea  carb.  is  the  first  remedy 
to  be  thought  of  in  this  condition.  Dose,  three  tablets 
of  the  third  decimal  once  in  three  hours.  Locally  ap- 
ply salicylic  acid  in  the  form  of  an  ointment. 

^     Salicylic  Acid,  grs.  xx. 
Vaseline,  gi. 

Mix.  Sig.     Apply  three  times  a  day. 

Eczema  Auriitm.  In  eczema  aurium  for  internal  med- 
ication we  should  prescribe  tincture  rhus  tox,  second 
decimal  dilution,  five  drops  once  in  two  hours.  Also 
give  calcarea  sulph.,  second  decimal,  in  alternation. 
Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  For  a  local 
application,  in  moist  eczema  of  the  auditory  canal,  I 
like  the  aristol  powder,  applied  by  means  of  an  insuf- 
flator. When  there  are  excoriations  of  the  external 
auditory  canal,  or  auricle,  from  acrid  discharge  the  fol- 
lowing ointment  will  prove  useful. 

^     Oil  Eucalyptus,  gtts.  xxx. 
Vaseline,  §i. 

Mix.  Sig.     Apply  locally  three  times  a  day. 

Deafness.  Deafness  is  sometimes  caused  by  the  ears 
being  filled  with  hardened  wax,  especially  in  old  peo- 
ple. In  several  such  cases  I  have  "  made  the  deaf 
hear  "  by  dropping  a  few  drops  of  ether  in  the  ear  to 
soften  the  wax  and  then  cleaning  out  the  ear  with  an 
ear  spatula.  In  this  way  I  cured  an  old  man  in  New 
Jersey,  sixty  years  old,  who  had  been  deaf  for  years, 


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also  an  engineer  on  one  of  the  Kennebec  River  steam- 
boats in  Maine. 

In  deafness  from  catarrh  of  the  middle  ear,  clogging 
up  of  the  Eustachian  tube,  we  have  one  remedy  that  is 
especially  indicated  and  one  that  will  help  the  deaf  to 
hear.  This  remedy  is  kali  mur.  Dose,  three  tablets 
of  the  sixth  decimal  trituration  night  and  morning. 

In  dullness  of  hearing  from  weakness  of  the  nervous 
system  sulph.  strychnia  is  the  remedy  needed.  Dose, 
one-thirtieth  grain  before  each  meal  and  at  bedtime. 
In  deafness  to  the  human  voice — a  common  symptom 
of  the  aged  or  in  catarrh  where  the  patient  is  con- 
stantly blowing  small  quantities  of  blood  from  the  nose 
— phosphorus  is  the  drug  needed.  Dose,  fifteen  drops 
of  the  sixth  decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass  of  water; 
of  this  mixture  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

When  ears  open  at  times  with  loud  report,  over  sen- 
sitiveness to  noise,  dullness  of  hearing,  catarrh  of  the 
Eustachian  tube  and  cavity  of  the  tympanum,  silicea 
is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal 
three  times  a  day. 

Humming  and  buzzing  in  the  ears,  atrophic  condi- 
tion in  elderly  people,  tissues  very  dry  and  becoming 
scaly — showing  lack  of  vitality,  deafness  from  want  of 
nerve  perception,  itching  in  the  auditory  canal,  ulcera- 
tion  of  the  membrana  tympani,  call  for  kali  phos. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  once  in  three 
hours. 

In  vascular  deafness,  that  appears  before  the  menses, 
and  deafness  with  tinnitus  due  to  gout,  ferrum  pieri- 
cum  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third 
decimal  once  in  three  hours. 


CHAPTER  X 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  HANDS,   ARMS  AND  LEGS 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  X 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE   HANDS,  ARMS  AND  LEGS 

1AM  aware  of  the  fact  that  this  method  of  giving 
special  remedies  for  different  parts  of  the  body  is 
a  new  departure,  but  I  believe  it  to  be  the  most 
practical  way  of  teaching  therapeutics  along  the  line 
of  definite  medication. 

A  lady  with  cold  hands,  easily  frightened,  starts  at 
every  sound,  needs  tincture  calendula,  five  drops,  night 
and  morning.  Gouty  deposits  in  wrists,  fingers,  and 
toes — uric  acid  diatheses — calls  for  benzoic  acid,  third 
decimal  dilution,  twenty  drops  in  a  glass  of  water. 
Tablespoonful  once  in  two  hours.  "  Fidgety  "  hands, 
can't  keep  them  still,  need  bromide  potassa,  five  grains, 
three  times  a  day.  Sweating  hands  call  for  pilocarpine, 
second  decimal,  two  grains  three  times  a  day.  Prickling 
and  numbness  of  the  fingers  are  the  warning  symp- 
toms of  paralysis.  Give  kali  phos.,  third  decimal,  ten 
grains,  in  cup  of  hot  water,  two  teaspoonfuls  once  in 
two  hours.  Edema  of  the  left  hand  and  foot  calls  for 
tincture  cactus  grand,  fifteen  drops  in  half  glass  of 
water.  Teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours.  Numbness  of 
the  left  arm  calls  for  the  same  remedy.  Writer's 
cramp  calls  for  magnesia  phos.,  third  decimal,  ten 
grains  in  a  glass  of  hot  water.  Two  teaspoonfuls 
once  in  an  hour.  Sulphate  strychnia,  one-thirtieth 
grain,  should  be  given  before  each  meal  and  at  bed- 
time. In  "  wrist  drop  "  from  lead  poisoning,  give  five 
grains  of  iodide  potash  three  times  a  day.  Crackling 


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of  joints  calls  for  natrum  phos.,  third  decimal,  three 
tablets  four  times  a  day.  In  caries  of  bones  calcarea 
flouride,  sixth  decimal,  is  the  remedy,  three  tablets 
three  times  a  day.  Wrist  joints  swollen  from  rheu- 
matism, red,  motion  impossible,  touch  unbearable,  calls 
for  tincture  actea  spicata,  five  drops  in  wine-glass  of 
hot  water  every  hour  until  relieved.  Weakness  of 
hands,  awkwardness,  everything  falling  from  the 
hands,  calls  for  bovista,  third  decimal  dilution,  twenty 
drops  in  glass  of  water.  Teaspoonful  every  half  hour. 
In  paresis,  when  first  one  hand  goes  to  sleep,  then  the 
other,  soles  of  the  feet  go  to  sleep  while  his  knees  sink 
down  from  weakness  when  walking,  seems  likely  to 
fall  to  one  side, — in  this  condition  cocculus  indicus  is 
the  remedy,  third  decimal  trituration,  three  tablets 
once  in  three  hours.  Women  who  habitually  have 
damp,  cold  hands,  and  feet  to  the  knees,  too  early  and 
too  profuse  menstruation,  should  be  given  calcarea  ost., 
first  decimal  trituration,  three  grains  three  times  a  day. 

Trembling  of  the  hands  in  paralysis,  sometimes 
hereditary,  calls  for  lolium  temulentum,  sixth  decimal 
trituration,  five  tablets  every  three  hours.  Sprains  and 
straining  of  the  muscles  of  the  hand  and  arms  from 
overlifting  calls  for  tincture  rhus  tox,  third  decimal 
dilution,  ten  drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water.  Teaspoon- 
ful every  hour. 

In  periostea  inflammation  of  long  bones,  swollen,  in- 
flamed, pain  going  from  above,  worse  at  night  and  in 
damp  weather,  give  tincture  mezerum,  ten  drops  in 
glass  of  water.  Tablespoonful  once  an  hour,  if  it  is 
complicated  with  syphilis,  tincture  stillingea  is  the 
remedy,  ten  drops  once  in  three  hours. 

Muscular    rheumatism,    when    the    parts    are    hot, 


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swollen,  and  tender,  pains  darting,  worse  on  motion, 
followed  by  numbness,  give  tincture  kalmia  latifolia, 
3ss  and  tincture  gelseminum  3ss,  aqua  ^iv.  Mix. 
Give  one  teaspoonful  once  in  half  an  hour.  The  above 
is  a  "  gem,"  and  should  not  be  forgotten.  In  rheu- 
matism when  the  pain  is  in  muscular  parts,  swollen, 
and  painful,  whether  red  or  not,  with  puffiness  of 
nearby  tissues,  give  tincture  jaborandi  3ii,  aqua  %iv. 
Mix  and  give  one  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

In  muscular  rheumatism,  with  the  muscles  sore 
and  tender,  principally  the  belly  of  the  muscle,  I 
like  tincture  cimicifuga,  with  its  side  partner,  tinc- 
ture gelsemium,  twenty  drops  of  each  in  six  ounces  of 
water,  teaspoonful  once  in  an  hour.  The  above  has 
cured  more  cases  of  acute  rheumatism  for  me  than  any 
other  remedies.  In  chronic  rheumatism,  no  fever,  skin 
soft,  pain  dull  and  heavy  but  continuous,  give  F.  E. 
manaca  5ii,  aqua  5v.  Mix.  Teaspoonful  three  times 
a  day.  In  articular  rheumatism  oil  gaultheria,  ten 
drops  on  sugar  once  in  two  hours,  has  helped  me  cure 
many  cases.  I  regard  it  as  one  of  our  best  remedies 
for  this  condition.  In  stubborn  cases  it  has  helped  me 
"  many  a  time."  Liniment  to  "  rub  out "  the  rheu- 
matism :  Camphor  gum,  *i ;  oil  wormwood,  5i ;  alco- 
hol, §iii-viii.  Mix.  Sig.  Rub  it  well  into  the  affected 
parts  three  times  a  day. 

In  gout  there  is  one  remedy  that  will  cure  more  cases 
than  any  other;  it  is  tincture  urtica  urens,  ten  drops 
three  times  a  day ;  under  its  influence  the  pain  and 
swelling  go  away  and  large  quantities  of  gravel  are 
passed. 

Cramps  in  the  legs  of  pregnant  women  may  be  re- 
lieved by  tincture  viburnum  pruni,  five  drops  in  hot 


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water  once  an  hour  till  relieved.  Knee  jerk,  walking 
difficult  and  unsteady,  as  found  in  transverse  myeletis 
and  also  in  paraplegia,  give  lathyrus  sativus,  third  deci- 
mal trituration,  three  grains  night  and  morning. 

In  hip  disease  tincture  cistus  canadensis  is  the  rem- 
edy. When  there  is  indication  of  scrofula  twenty 
drops  of  the  tincture  in  cup  of  water;  give  one  tea- 
spoonful  once  an  hour.  In  phlebitis,  with  limb  pale 
white  in  color,  swollen  veins,  hard  and  knotty,  painful 
to  the  touch,  give  tincture  pulsatilla,  ten  drops  in  half 
a  glass  of  water.  Teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  Hama- 
melis  is  the  "  aconite  of  the  veins,"  and  should  be  given 
in  alternation  with  the  pulsatilla;  tincture  hamamelis, 
first  decimal  dilution,  twenty  drops  in  half  a  glass  of 
water.  A  teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  Locally  apply 
distilled  extract  of  witch  hazel  and  warm  water,  equal 
parts.  Bathe  the  limb  frequently  with  this  wash. 

In  arthritis  deformans,  with  stiffness  of  the  knee, 
tearing,  drawing  pains  that  draw  the  limb  out  of  shape, 
causticum,  third  decimal  trituration,  is  the  remedy, 
three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  In  sciatica,  when 
there  are  shooting  pains,  like  "  lightning  shock,"  ex- 
tending from  the  hip  down  to  the  popliteal  fossa  on 
the  posterior  portion  of  the  hip,  relieved  by  pressure, 
colocynth  is  the  remedy,  tincture  colocynth,  third  deci- 
mal dilution,  ten  drops  in  a  little  water  every  hour. 
When  there  is  a  bruised,  sore  feeling  in  sciatica  and  the 
pain  shoots  down  the  outer  side  of  the  right  leg,  phy- 
tolacca  is  the  remedy,  tincture  phytolacca  fifteen  drops 
in  half  a  glass  of  water.  One  teaspoonful  once  an 
hour.  In  the  sciatica,  when  there  is  intense  pain  along 
the  right  sciatic  nerve,  darting  from  right  hip  joint 


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down  to  foot,  give  tincture  guaphalium,  ten  drops  in 
half  a  glass  of  water,  tablespoonful  once  an  hour. 

Varicose  veins  may  appear  on  the  right  shoulder  as  a 
result  of  enlargement  of  the  liver.  Give  tincture  cheli- 
donium  if  the  skin  is  dirty,  dingy  looking,  five  drops 
three  times  a  day.  It  reduces  the  enlargement  of  the 
liver  and  removes  the  cause  of  the  varicosis.  If  in 
varicose  veins  upon  the  legs  we  find  enlargement  of  the 
spleen  when  there  is  a  sallow  countenance,  nausea,  un- 
easy feeling  in  abdomen,  inflation  of  abdomen,  give 
tincture  carduus,  five  drops  three  times  a  day.  This 
remedy  will  cure  more  cases  of  varicose  veins  than  any 
other  internal  remedy.  Locally  apply  distilled  extract 
witch  hazel  to  the  enlarged  veins,  then  bandage  the  leg 
from  the  arch  of  the  foot  to  a  little  above  the  affected 
part,  wear  over  it  an  elastic  stocking. 

For  "  varicose  ulcers "  I  use  the  "  eclectic  wash," 
made  as  follows : 

I£     Fl.  ext.  lobelia  herb. 

Fl.  ext.  baptisa  a.  a.  fl.  £j. 
Sulphate  zinc,  £i. 
Hot  water,  Oj. 

Mix.  Put  one  tablespoonful  of  this  mixture  in  a 
douche  or  fountain  syringe,  pour  it  from  a  height  on 
the  sore.  Then  wet  gauze  with  the  "  wash,"  and  apply 
to  the  sore,  cover  with  rubber  tissue ;  do  this  three 
times  a  day.  I  have  cured  cases  of  fifteen  and  twenty 
years'  standing  with  this  "  wash."  It  will  heal  up  the 
ulcer.  It  is  one  of  the  finest  things  I  have  ever  used 
in  my  life. 

In  recent  fractures  of  bones  do  not  forget  tincture 
symphitum,  third  decimal  dilution,  twenty  drops  in 


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glass  of  water,  teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours.  It 
helps  the  bones  to  unite;  in  old  fractures  that  do  not 
unite,  silicea,  sixth  decimal,  is  the  remedy,  three  tab- 
lets three  times  a  day.  In  paralysis  agitans,  or  the 
tremors  of  multiple  sclerosis,  hydrobromate  hyoscy- 
amus,  third  decimal  trituration,  is  the  remedy,  one 
grain  tablet  every  hour. 

In  hemiplegia  I  have  given  sulphate  strychnia,  com- 
bined with  xanthoxyllin,  one-thirtieth  grain  of  the 
former  to  one  grain  of  the  latter,  given  four  times  a 
day.  It  has  cured  cases  where  strychnia  was  used 
alone  and  failed.  The  xanthoxyllin  increases  the  action 
of  the  strychnia. 


CHAPTER  XI 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  i-OR  THE  FEET 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XI 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  FEET 

IT  is  the  little  things  in  a  physician's  practice  that 
often  make  or  break  his  reputation.  Therefore  we 
should  look  after  the  different  troubles  of  the  feet. 
Standing  or  walking  on  the  feet  will  sometimes  cause  a 
burning  of  the  soles  of  the  feet  that  is  very  annoying. 
Bathe  the  feet  twice  a  day  in  one  drachm  of  muriate 
ammonia  to  a  pint  of  warm  water.  Burning  of  the  feet 
after  a  person  gets  in  bed  so  they  have  to  stick  their 
feet  out  from  under  the  covers  is  an  indication  for 
sulphur.  Give  sulphur,  third  decimal  trituration,  two 
grains  once  in  three  hours. 

I  used  to  think  that  rheumatism  settled  in  the  feet 
was  the  worst  form  of  rheumatism  to  cure  until  I 
learned  how  to  cure  it.  When  the  rheumatism  begins 
in  the  feet  and  travels  upwards,  Ledum  Palustro  is  the 
remedy.  Put  fifteen  drops  tincture  Ledum  in  a  glass 
of  water,  give  teaspoonful  every  hour.  In  a  case  of 
cancer  under  my  treatment,  she  had  rheumatism  settle 
in  her  feet ;  it  almost  made  a  cripple  of  her.  It  seemed 
determined  to  stick  there.  I  had  no  Ledum,  so  I  fell 
back  on  oil  gaultheria,  ten  drops  on  sugar  once  in  two 
hours.  In  twenty-four  hours  she  could  walk  as  well  as 
anybody. 

Old  people  are  sometimes  troubled  with  corns  and 
callosities  on  the  soles  of  the  feet ;  they  are  very  tender. 
The  patient  can  hardly  walk  on  account  of  this  tender- 
ness. Give  antimonium  crudum,  third  decimal  tritura- 


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tion,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  In  rheumatism 
of  the  feet,  with  this  tenderness  of  the  soles  of  the  feet, 
do  not  forget  the  above  remedy.  Tingling  of  the  toes 
and  burning  of  the  feet  is  a  symptom  of  spinal  irrita- 
tion and  belladonna  is  the  remedy.  Give  five  drops  of 
tincture  belladonna  first  decimal  dilution  three  times  a 
day.  For  weak  ankles,  calcarea  phos.,  third  decimal 
trituration,  is  the  remedy,  three  tablets  three  times  a 
day. 

For  bunions  apply  tincture  vir.,  with  camel-hair 
brush  night  and  morning.  In  old  people  with  edema 
of  the  feet,  apocynin  is  the  remedy.  Give  apocynin 
one-twelfth  grain,  three  granules  every  three  hours. 
For  numbness  of  the  feet,  feel  as  if  they  were  going  to 
sleep,  give  alumina,  third  decimal  trituration,  three 
tablets  once  in  three  hours.  For  chilblains  of  the  feet 
give  agaricus  musca,  second  decimal,  three  tablets 
three  times  a  day.  The  oil  of  cajeput  is  a  good  local 
application.  When  the  feet  are  "  fidgety,"  twitching, 
can't  keep  them  still,  give  zincum  metalicum,  third 
decimal,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  For  of- 
fensive sweating  of  the  feet,  bathe  the  feet  with 
chlorate  potash,  five  grains  to  the  ounce  of  water, 
two  or  three  times  a  day.  Silicea,  the  sixth  deci- 
mal trituration,  three  tablets  three  times  a  day  is 
the  internal  remedy  for  the  above  condition.  When 
the  feet  feel  cold  and  damp  calcarea  carb.  is  the  rem- 
edy, three  grains  of  the  first  decimal  trituration  three 
times  a  day.  Cramps  in  the  feet  and  legs  in  bed  call 
for  sulphur  first  decimal  trituration,  two  grains  four 
times  a  day.  In  women  at  the  menopause,  when  with 
grief  and  worriment  of  mind  we  have  persistent  cold- 
ness of  the  feet  and  legs,  ignatia  is  the  remedy.  Fif- 


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teen  drops,  six  of  tincture  ignatia  to  four  ounces  of 
water,  teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 

For  ingrown  toe  nails,  scrape  the  top  of  the  nail 
thin,  cut  off  the  sides  of  the  nail.  Then  paint  on  tinc- 
ture chloride  iron  along  the  sides  of  the  nail  and  on  all 
the  inflamed  surface;  apply  this  once  a  day  until  the 
soreness  is  all  gone.  Then  lift  up  the  edges  of  the  nail 
on  the  sides  and  press  cotton  wet  with  the  tincture 
chloride  iron  under  the  nail.  I  have  used  the  above 
treatment  for  forty  years,  and  it  will  cure  it.  In  one 
case  a  doctor  had  been  treating  a  case  of  this  kind  ten 
weeks  until  the  toe  was  covered  with  unhealthy  granu- 
lations. She  could  not  wear  any  kind  of  a  shoe,  and 
was  almost  a  cripple.  In  two  days  under  my  treatment 
she  could  dance  on  her  feet.  When  the  feet  feel  weak, 
heavy,  can  hardly  lift  them  from  the  ground,  picric  acid 
is  the  remedy.  Give  it  in  the  sixth  decimal  trituration, 
three  tablets  every  three  hours.  In  my  old  latin  gram- 
mar I  remember  a  sentence,  "  Little  things  are  little 
things,  but  to  be  faithful  in  little  things  is  great."  Let 
the  young  physician  look  out  for  the  little  details  of 
every-day  practice.  Sometimes  a  cure  of  what  looks 
like  a  very  simple  case  will  be  the  means  of  bringing 
many  dollars  to  the  doctor. 

In  irregularity  of  the  circulation  when  the  feet  are 
cold  and  the  hands  hot  or  vice  versa  the  sixth  decimal 
trituration  of  sepia  will  prove  useful.  Dose,  three  tab- 
lets once  in  three  hours. 

In  convulsions  where  every  muscle  in  the  body 
twitches  from  the  eyes  to  the  toes  hyoscyamus  is  the 
needful  remedy ;  dose,  five  drops  tincture  hyoscyamus 
once  an  hour.  In  convulsions  when  the  spasms  begin 


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in  the  fingers  and  toes,  the  third  decimal  trituration  of 
cuprum  is  indicated.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  an  hour. 

In  senile  gangrene  when  the  feet  and  toes  are  cold  as 
iron,  but  the  patient  cannot  bear  to  have  them  covered 
up,  secale  cornutum  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops, 
tincture  secale,  in  a  little  water  once  in  two  hours. 

When  the  toe  nails  grow  out  of  shape  and  become 
thick  graphites  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  sixth  decimal  trituration  once  in  three  hours.  If 
there  are  drawing  pains  in  the  right  leg  and  foot,  right 
foot  cold  as  ice,  the  other  being  natural,  you  should 
prescribe  tincture  chelidonium.  Dose,  five  drops  in  a 
little  water,  once  in  three  hours.  If  the  ankle  joints 
are  swollen  and  the  soles  of  the  feet  are  so  painful  that 
the  patient  can  hardly  step  on  the  ground,  pain  is 
worse  when  warm  in  bed,  do  not  forget  tincture  ledum 
palustre.  Dose,  add  fifteen  drops  tincture  ledum  to  a 
half  glass  of  water  and  give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful 
of  the  mixture  every  hour. 


CHAPTER  XII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  NERVOUS  SYSTEM 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  NERVOUS  SYSTEM 

NEURITIS.  For  the  fever,  restlessness  and  full 
bounding  pulse,  aconite  rad  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  tincture  aconite,  gtts.  v,  aqua  %\v.  Mix. 
Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  hour.  For  the  hyperesthesia, 
the  extreme  exaltation  of  the  nervous  system  cannabis 
indica  should  be  prescribed.  Dose,  tincture  cannabis 
Ind.  gtts.  xv,  aqua  §iv.  Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once 
in  two  hours.  If  the  neuritis  is  traumatic  hypericum 
is  indicated,  especially  if  the  surrounding  parts  are  in- 
flamed with  tingling,  burning  and  numbness  in  them. 
Dose,  add  fifteen  drops  tincture  hypericum  to  four 
ounces  of  water,  mix,  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
hour. 

Neuralgia.  When  the  pain  is  sharp,  shooting  or 
stabbing  gelsemium  should  be  combined  with  kalmia 
as  in  the  following  prescription : 

^     Tr.  Gelsemium. 

Tr.  Kalmia,  a.  a.  3ss. 
Aqua  q.  s.  ad,  §iv. 

Mig.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in  twenty  minutes 
until  the  pain  is  relieved.  The  above  is  a  grand  rem- 
edy in  this  condition. 

In  neuralgia  of  the  face  and  eyes  where  the  pain  is 
of  a  stabbing  character  running  through  to  the  back 
part  of  the  head,  involving  the  eye  orbit,  malar  bones 


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and  teeth,  and  the  eye  on  the  affected  side  runs  clear 
water,  spigelia  anthelmintica  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
tincture  spigelia,  fifteen  drops,  water  four  ounces,  mix 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

In  ciliary  neuralgia  with  shooting  pains,  worse  from 
motion,  when  touched,  or  in  attempting  to  sit  up, 
bryonia  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  add  five  drops  tincture 
bryonia  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  the  patient 
a  teaspoonful  of  this  mixture  every  hour. 

When  in  neuralgia  there  are  sharp,  cutting,  shooting, 
stabbing  pains,  which  are  intermittent — come  and  go 
like  lightning,  and  rapidly  changing  their  location  and 
are  relieved  by  heat,  magnesia  phos.  will  prove  cura- 
tive. Dose,  add  ten  grains  of  the  third  decimal  mag- 
nesia phos.  to  a  cup  of  hot  water  and  give  teaspoonful 
every  few  minutes  until  patient  is  relieved. 

In  neuralgia  of  the  head,  when  the  pain  is  so  intense, 
piercing,  stabbing,  that  the  patient  screams  and  pulls 
her  hair,  the  face  is  pale  and  cadaverous  looking,  mind 
deranged,  zincum  valerianicum  should  be  prescribed. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  trituration, 
zincum  valerianicum,  once  in  two  hours. 

I  have  seen  stubborn  cases  of  neuralgia  yield  to 
aconitin  (con)  in  one-sixteenth  grain  doses  given  at 
bedtime,  and  give  the  patient  a  good  night's  rest.  In 
many  cases  of  neuralgia  the  pain  is  periodic — inter- 
mittent— in  its  appearance  showing  the  complication 
of  malaria.  In  such  patients  the  following  anti- 
periodic  prescription  will  be  found  very  useful. 

^     Sceutellarin,  grs.  x. 
Cypripedium,  grs.  v. 
Sulph.  Quinine,  grs.  xii. 


Definite  Medication  179 

Mix.  Divided  into  ten  powders.  Sig.  One  pow- 
der every  two  hours  until  all  are  used. 

Hysteria.  One  dear  old  Quaker  lady  I  knew  had  a 
hired  girl,  a  strong  lusty  vigorous  woman  who  had 
arrived  at  the  age  when  a  woman  begins  to  realize 
what  the  Almighty  made  her  for.  She  began  to  have 
fits ;  when  she  had  these  spells  it  took  two  or  three 
young  men  to  hold  her.  The  old  Quaker  lady  saw  her 
have  one  or  two  of  the  fits,  and  then  she  "  saw  a  great 
light."  She  said  to  the  girl,  "  If  thee  has  any  more  of 
those  spells  when  those  young  men  are  around  I  will 
discharge  thee."  It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  girl  did 
not  have  any  more  fits. 

I  was  called  out  one  cold  winter's  night  to  see  a 
woman  supposed  to  be  dying.  When  I  arrived  at  the 
house  the  patient  said,  "  Doctor,  I  am  dying."  I  diag- 
nosed the  case  hysteria  and  replied,  "  You  will  not  die 
this  time."  I  gave  her  a  teaspoonful  of  "  Composition 
Powder  "  (poplar  bark,  capsicum,  etc.)  ;  a  teaspoonful 
in  a  cup  of  sweetened  water  and  made  her  drink  the 
whole  of  it.  When  she  had  taken  it  all  she  forgot  all 
about  dying ;  it  gave  her  something  else  to  think  of  and 
she  speedily  recovered. 

Another  case  was  where  a  hired  girl  had  been  the 
rounds  of  the  neighborhood.  No  one  would  keep  her 
very  long  on  account  of  the  fits  she  had.  None  of  the 
doctors  who  had  been  called  seemed  to  understand  the 
cause  and  could  not  cure  her.  I  saw  her  in  one  of  her 
fits  and  it  was  hysteria.  I  prescribed  tincture  vale- 
rianate  ammonia,  teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours  in  a 
little  water  and  it  cured  her.  It  is  an  old  eclectic 
remedy  for  hysteria  and  a  very  good  one. 

I  was  called  into  another  county  to  see  a  young  lady 


180  Definite  Medication 

who  had  been  an  invalid  for  some  time.  She  was  suf- 
fering from  chronic  bronchitis  that  was  complicated 
by  "  spells "  as  the  family  called  them.  The  least 
noise,  or  if  she  was  vexed  or  crossed  in  any  way,  would 
cause  one  of  these  "  spells  "  to  manifest  themselves. 
I  diagnosed  the  "  spells  "  as  hysteria.  I  told  the  girl's 
mother  in  her  hearing  that  I  understood  the  cause  of 
those  "  spells  "  and  that  I  would  cure  them.  I  said, 
"  I  will  prepare  a  bottle  of  medicine  and  place  it  on 
the  shelf  at  the  head  of  her  bed;  when  she  begins  to 
show  signs  of  a  spasm  give  her  one  teaspoonful  of  this 
mixture  and  she  never  will  have  another  attack."  The 
prescription  was  as  follows : 

I£     Tr.  Asafoetida. 
Tr.  Valerian. 
Tr.  Cypripedium. 
Tr.  Lobelia,  a.  a.  3ss. 
Aqua,  giv. 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  at  the  first  appearance  of  a 
spasm.  One  dose  was  enough;  she  never  had  any 
more  attacks. 

In  another  case  a  woman  had  some  trouble  in  the 
family  which  excited  her  so  much  that  she  developed 
hysteria.  When  I  arrived  at  the  house,  I  found  her  on 
the  bed  with  her  jaws  tightly  locked.  Nothing  could 
be  given  by  the  way  of  the  mouth.  I  wasted  no  time 
but  called  for  a  cup  of  warm  water  into  which  I  put  a 
tablespoonful  of  Comp.  Tr.  Lobelia.  I  directed  one 
of  the  women  present  to  throw  that  into  the  rectum 
by  means  of  a  syringe.  In  a  few  minutes  she  opened 
her  mouth  as  the  enema  seemed  to  change  the  current 
of  her  thoughts.  She  recovered  rapidly. 


Definite  Medication  181 

In  hysteria  when  there  is  bloating  of  the  abdomen  by 
gas  during  the  attack  tincture  Pothos  foetida  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops  three  times  a  day.  If  the 
patient  is  extremely  sensitive  to  all  external  impres- 
sions, laughs  and  cries  alternately,  has  globus  hyster- 
icus,  passes  pale  limpid  urine,  tincture  ignatia  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  add  ten  drops  to  half  a  glass  of  water 
and  give  of  this  mixture  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Tincture  moschus  is  indicated  during  the  paroxysms, 
and  will  frequently  shorten  their  duration  if  there  is  a 
feeling  of  suffocation  with  constriction  in  the  throat  at 
the  beginning  of  the  spasms;  there  is  also  nervous 
palpitation  of  the  heart  with  copious  urination.  Dose, 
twenty  drops  of  the  second  decimal  dilution  of  tincture 
moschus  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and  let  the  patient 
take  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

The  New  School  physicians  have  been  uniformly 
successful  in  the  treatment  of  hysteria.  Note  the  dif- 
ference between  their  treatment  and  that  of  the  Old 
School.  In  "  Reynold's  System  of  Medicine,"  Vol.  II, 
page  327,  the  author  says  "  he  knows  not  one  single 
remedy  which  exerts  any  specific  action  on  the  disease 
(hysteria).  This  is  an  example  of  many  other  dis- 
eases which  cannot  be  cured  by  the  remedies  of  the 
Old  School. 

Neurasthenia.  When  there  is  weakness  of  the  nerves, 
brain  is  tired,  the  patient  is  irritable,  gets  excited  at 
the  least  thing,  urine  has  an  excess  of  phosphates, 
there  is  a  history  of  sexual  excesses,  and  an  occipital 
headache,  I  like  the  avena  sativa.  Dose,  twenty  drops 
of  the  fluid  extract  avena  sativa  before  meals  and  at 
bedtime.  It  will  calm  and  strengthen  the  nerves. 

When  there  is  loss  of  memory,  a  strain  upon  the 


182  Definite  Medication 

nervous  system  by  hard  study,  grief  or  trouble,  sexual 
excesses,  diuresis,  and  perspiration  easily  excited,  phos- 
phoric acid  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops 
of  the  first  decimal  dilution  three  times  a  day.  When 
there  is  exhaustion  from  the  slightest  excitement,  men- 
tal exertion  or  overwork,  subject  to  nervous  headaches 
— pain  begins  in  the  occipital  region  and  extends  down 
the  spine  you  should  prescribe  picric  acid.  Dose, 
three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  trituration  once  in 
two  hours.  When  the  patient  is  gloomy  and  melan- 
choly, loss  of  memory,  looks  on  the  dark  side  of  every- 
thing, there  is  an  overstrain  of  the  brain  and  nervous 
system  by  worry,  too  close  attention  to  business  or 
study,  kali  phos.,  third  decimal  trituration,  is  the 
needed  drug.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours. 

Silicea  is  a  grand  remedy  when  the  mind  and  nerv- 
ous system  show  a  profound  weakness ;  the  patient  has 
lost  his  "  nerve,"  his  grit,  he  is  nervous,  irritable,  faint- 
hearted, gives  up  at  the  least  obstacle,  there  is  head- 
ache which  begins  at  the  back  of  the  head  and  extends 
over  to  the  eyes.  With  such  symptoms  silicea,  the 
sixth  decimal,  will  do  more  than  any  other  remedy. 
Dose,  three  tablets  three  times  a  day. 

Epilepsy.  In  adapting  our  remedies  to  the  treatment 
of  this  affection  we  must  remember  the  different  causes 
from  which  it  arises,  viz. :  injury  of  the  brain,  syphilis, 
sexual  excesses,  some  forms  of  indigestion,  etc.  A 
careful  study  of  each  case  must  be  made ;  first,  to  as- 
certain the  cause,  and  second  to  determine  which  rem- 
edy will  exactly  fit  that  peculiar  group  of  symptoms. 
When  the  face  is  swollen,  livid  or  pale,  the  eyes  are 
fixed,  pupils  dilated,  frothing  at  the  mouth,  oppressed 
breathing,  coldness  of  the  extremities,  pulse  weak, 


Definite  Medication  183 

spasms  first  tonic  then  clonic  in  character,  respiration 
heavy  and  stertorous  oenanthe  crocata  is  the  remedy 
indicated,  and  the  experience  of  our  best  prescribers 
seems  to  prove  that  the  third  decimal  dilution  is  the 
most  efficacious  form  to  use.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the 
third  decimal  dilution  once  in  two  hours.  When  the 
tincture  is  given  it  is  apt  to  produce  a  headache. 
When  there  is  intense  cerebral  congestion  bromide 
ammonium  will  prove  useful.  The  following  pre- 
scription has  made  some  fine  cures: 

I£     Bromide  Ammonium,  ^i- 
Tr.  Belladonna,  gtts.  xx. 
Tr.  QEnanthe  Crocata,  gtts.  xxx. 
Tr.  Pulsatilla,  3ii. 
Simple  Elixyr  q.  s.,  §xvi. 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours.  When 
the  attacks  become  less  frequent  give  the  dose  only 
two  or  three  times  a  day.  In  full  blooded  plethoric 
men  with  a  hardness  and  tension  to  the  pulse — show- 
ing nerve  tension,  veratrum  viride  should  be  pre- 
scribed to  relax  this  nerve  tension  and  relieve  the 
blood  pressure  in  the  brain.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the 
first  decimal  dilution  three  times  a  day. 

When  the  patient  is  low  spirited,  sad  and  timid,  and 
the  attacks  seem  to  be  caused  by  worms,  indigo  is  the 
needful  remedy.  Dose,  three  grains  of  the  second 
decimal  trituration  once  in  three  hours.  When  the 
convulsive  seizures  are  induced  by  fright,  or  some 
violent  emotion,  and  follow  each  other  in  rapid  suc- 
cession you  should  not  forget  artemisia  vulgaris. 
Dose,  five  drops  of  the  first  decimal  dilution  once  in 
three  hours. 


184  Definite  Medication 

In  epilepsy  that  is  caused  by  suppressed  emotions 
the  sixth  decimal  of  kali  mur.  will  be  found  useful. 
Three  tablets  once  in  three  hours,  of  this  preparation 
is  the  dose. 

My  experience  has  taught  me  that  if  you  can  see 
your  patient  at  the  very  commencement  of  an  attack 
the  compound  tincture  lobelia  is  the  very  best  remedy 
that  can  be  given  to  reduce  the  violence  of  the  con- 
vulsive seizures.  It  also  seems  to  lessen  the  frequency 
of  the  attacks.  Many  convulsions  in  children  are 
called  epilepsy  when  in  reality  they  are  due  to 
"  worms."  Treat  the  child  for  worms  and  the  epilepsy 
soon  vanishes.  Some  epileptics  are  pretty  sure  to  have 
an  attack  following  a  hearty  meal.  Here  there  is  some 
form  of  indigestion.  If  you  will  cut  down  the  quan- 
tity of  food  eaten  and  treat  the  indigestion  you  will 
promptly  cure  your  patient. 

Tincture  solanum  carolinense  is  indicated  in  epilepsy 
occurring  at  or  near  the  menstrual  period.  Dose,  from 
ten  to  fifteen  drops  three  times  a  day.  If  the  attacks 
occur  from  nervous  exhaustion  or  sexual  excesses  you 
should  prescribe  the  third  decimal  trituration  of  cal- 
carea  phos. — giving  three  tablets  in  the  morning — and 
kali  phos.  and  magnesia  phos.  in  addition,  during  the 
day.  These  two  drugs  should  be  used  as  follows : — 
Add  five  grains  of  the  third  decimal  kali  phos.  and  five 
grains  of  the  third  decimal  magnesia  phos.  to  a  cup  of 
hot  water  and  of  this  mixture  give  two  teaspoonfuls 
every  hour. 

In  epilepsy  with  mental  defects  caused  by  injury  of 
the  cranium  when  there  is  osseous  depression,  the  sixth 
decimal  trituration  of  natrum  sulph.  is  the  indicated 
remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  twelve  hours. 


Definite  Medication  185 

Chorea.  For  the  spasmodic  twitching  of  the  muscles 
the  third  decimal  trituration  of  magnesia  phos.  should 
be  prescribed.  Dose,  put  ten  grains  in  a  cup  of  hot 
water  and  give  two  teaspoonfuls  every  hour.  The 
sixth  decimal  trituration  of  calcarea  phos.  should  be 
given  as  an  intercurrent  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets 
three  times  a  day. 

Tincture  cimicifuga  is  one  of  the  old  Eclectic  reme- 
dies for  chorea  and  is  just  as  good  to-day  as  it  ever 
was.  It  acts  more  especially  with  girls  at  puberty 
about  the  time  they  begin  to  menstruate.  The  follow- 
ing prescription  will  be  found  beneficial : 

^     Tr.  Cimicifuga. 

Tr.  Gelsemium,  a.  a.  3ss. 
Fowler's  Solution,  gtts.  xxx. 
Aqua,  3vi. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  three  hours. 

When  the  muscular  twitchings  begin  to  diminish 
leave  out  the  gelsemium  and  continue  the  prescription. 

Girls  at  puberty  are  often  anemic,  nervous  and 
flighty.  They  need  a  good  tonic  and  some  form  of 
iron.  The  following  prescription  has  served  me  well 
in  such  cases : 

^     Tr.  Scutellaria. 

Tr.  Cypripedium,  a.  a.  3iv. 
Ferri  Carbonas,  3i. 
Port  Wine,  gviii. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  after  each  meal. 

When  there  is  twitching  of  the  eyelids,  spasmodic 
movements  of  the  single  muscles  and  dancing  of  the 
whole  body,  symptoms  worse  during  a  thunder-storm, 


186  Definite  Medication 

ceases  when  patient  is  asleep,  uncertainty  in  walking, 
stumbles  over  everything,  we  should  remember  agar- 
icus  muscarius.  Dose,  twenty  drops  of  the  first  deci- 
mal dilution  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  of  this  mixture  every  hour. 

Catilepsy.  When  the  symptoms  of  this  disease  sim- 
ulate hysteria  and  the  cause  is  unknown  you  should 
give  cannabis  indica.  Dose,  five  drops,  tincture  can- 
nabis  three  times  a  day.  If  the  condition  is  caused  by 
obstruction  of  the  menses  pulsatilla  will  be  needed. 
Dose,  five  drops,  tincture  pulsatilla  once  in  two  hours. 
If  the  attacks  are  caused  by  religious  excitement  pre- 
scribe stramonium.  Dose,  tincture  stramonium,  five 
drops  three  times  a  day. 

Paralysis  (facial).  In  the  acute  stage  of  this  affec- 
tion aconite  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  twenty  drops  of  the 
third  decimal  dilution  put  in  a  glass  of  water  and  tea- 
spoonful  doses  administered  every  hour.  If  the  par- 
alysis is  caused  by  exposure  to  cold  winds  causticum, 
the  third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets 
once  in  three  hours. 

Paraplegia.  When  there  is  spinal  weakness,  pain  in 
the  lumbar  region,  weakness  of  the  legs,  vertigo,  poor 
eyesight,  the  indicated  remedy  is  argentum  nitricum. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  trituration  once 
in  three  hours.  When  the  trouble  is  caused  by  damp, 
cold  weather  and  there  is  sudden  loss  of  power  in  the 
lower  extremities  with  rigidity  of  the  legs,  spastic  gait 
— often  tremulous  you  should  prescribe  lathyrus  sat- 
ivus.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  tritura- 
tion three  times  a  day. 

Painless  paralysis  with  swelling,  burning  and  stiff- 
ness of  the  fingers  calls  for  oleander.  Dose,  twenty 


Definite  Medication  187 

drops,  third  decimal  dilution,  in  a  glass  of  water,  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  Kali  phos.  is  in- 
dicated in  all  forms  of  paralysis,  especially  those  at- 
tacks which  come  on  suddenly.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  third  decimal  trituration  once  in  two  hours. 

In  the  paralysis  that  extends  from  below  upwards, 
gradually  involving  new  structures;  there  is  vertigo, 
the  patient  staggers  when  walking.  These  cases  re- 
quire conium  maculatum.  Dose,  ten  drops  tincture 
conium  in  half  a  glass  of  water,  teaspoonful  once  an 
hour.  For  the  paralysis  that  follows  diphtheria  gel- 
semium  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops  of  the  third 
decimal  once  in  three  hours. 

Hemiplegia.  In  one  case  of  this  condition  which  fol- 
lowed apoplexy  that  I  saw  in  Massachusetts  I  gave  ten 
drops  tincture  avena  sativa  (Keith's)  in  hot  water  be- 
fore each  meal  and  twenty  drops  at  bedtime.  It  helped 
the  patient  to  get  the  use  of  her  legs.  In  paralysis  of 
the  left  side  of  the  body — due  to  apoplexy  with  great 
weakness,  faintness,  prostration,  mental  and  physical, 
trembling  of  the  tongue,  worse  in  the  morning,  lachesis 
should  be  prescribed.  Dose,  ten  drops  of  the  sixth 
decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass  of  water,  teaspoonful 
once  in  two  hours. 

In  paralysis  of  local  portions  as  the  larynx,  tongue, 
face,  bladder,  etc.,  generally  on  the  right  side,  also  in 
paralysis  of  the  right  arm  and  leg,  you  should  prescribe 
causticum.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal 
every  three  hours.  In  hemaplegia  I  have  had  good 
results  with  the  following  pill: 

ff     Sulph.  Strychnine,  gr.  %o. 
Xanthoxylin,  gr.  i. 


188  Definite  Medication 

Mix.  Ft.  one  pill.  Sig.  Give  one  of  these  pills 
four  times  a  day.  I  also  use  this  prescription  as  a  local 
stimulating  liniment  in  paralyis. 

^     Oil  Originum,  §ii. 
Oil  Capsicum,  Si. 
Oil  Stillingia,  3ii. 
Alcohol,  Oi. 

Mix.  Sig.  Bathe  the  affected  part  three  times  a 
day  with  brisk  friction. 

In  paralysis  from  softening  of  the  spinal  cord,  phos- 
phide zinc  is  the  indicated  drug.  Dose,  one-tenth 
grain  three  times  a  day. 

Paralysis  Agitans.  In  this  affection  there  are  three 
remedies  which  have  assisted  me  to  produce  good  re- 
sults. The  third  decimal  trituration  of  hyoscinate  hy- 
drobromas;  dose,  one  grain  once  an  hour.  Fl.  Ext. 
gelsemium,  ten  drops  once  in  three  hours,  third  deci- 
mal trituration  of  magnesia  phos.,  three  tablets  once  in 
three  hours.  The  two  latter  should  be  given  in  alter- 
nation. 

Writer's  Cramp.  If  the  hand  trembles  while  writing, 
crampy  pains,  aching  in  the  wrists,  rheumatic  tend- 
ency, natrum  phos.  is  the  remedy  needed.  Dose,  five 
grains  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  in  half  a  glass  of 
water,  teaspoonful  every  hour.  The  third  decimal  of 
magnesia  phos.  should  be  given  with  the  above  rem- 
edy. Add  five  grains  to  half  a  cup  of  hot  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  Tincture  conium 
mac.  first  decimal  dilution,  given  in  three  drop  doses 
once  in  three  hours  has  cured  some  cases. 

Puerperal  Convulsions.  Some  cases  of  eclampsia  are 
purely  hysterical  and  in  such  instances  viburnum  pru- 


Definite  Medication  189 

nifolium  "is  the  remedy.  Dose,  ten  drops  of  tincture 
viburnum  once  an  hour.  Headache  that  precedes  the 
convulsions  is  a  warning  symptom  of  their  onset.  The 
head  feels  heavy,  but  cannot  lay  it  down  on  the  pillow, 
the  blood  vessels  are  distended,  there  is  congestion  and 
a  throbbing  headache,  face  is  red,  patient  froths  at  the 
mouth.  In  such  conditions  glonoin  is  indicated.  Dose, 
ten  drops  of  the  second  decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass 
of  water,  teaspoonful  every  hour  until  relieved. 

If  the  pulse  is  hard  and  tense,  very  marked  cerebral 
congestion,  veratrum  viride  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  ten 
to  fifteen  drops  tincture  veratrum  once  an  hour  until 
the  convulsions  are  controlled. 

If  the  pregnant  woman  has  a  proper  preparatory 
treatment  before  her  confinement  she  probably  will  not 
have  convulsions.  If  at  any  time  before  her  expected 
confinement  there  is  albumin  present  in  the  urine  the 
woman  should  be  given  Fl.  Ext.  eupatorium  purpu- 
reum.  Dose,  fifteen  drops  three  times  a  day  to  clear 
the  urine  of  albumin.  (See  Preparatory  Treatment  of 
the  Pregnant  Woman.) 


CHAPTER  XIII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  SKIN 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XIII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  SKIN 

IN  the  treatment  of  skin  diseases  I  have  always  de- 
pended upon  internal  remedies.  Each  form  of  skin 
disease  has  some  one  remedy  that  is  especially  in- 
dicated in  that  particular  form  of  eruption.  For  ex- 
ample : 

Eczema,  rhus  tox ;  urticaria,  urtica  ureus ;  acne,  ber- 
beris  aquifolium  ;  crustea  lactea,  arctium  lappa ;  psoria- 
sis, rumex  crispus ;  herpes  zoster,  ranunculus  bulbosas ; 
ichthyosis,  iodide  arsenic;  barber's  itch,  iodide  sulphur; 
rhagades,  graphites,  etc. 

By  keeping  the  above  remedies  in  our  minds  and 
prescribing  them  as  indicated  we  may  expect  good  re- 
sults. Sulphur  has  been  much  used  and  abused  as  a 
remedy  for  skin  disease  and  it  is  often  used  as  a 
"  blood  purifier."  Dose,  three  grains  of  the  third  deci- 
mal trituration  once  in  three  hours.  It  is  not,  how- 
ever, a  "  cure  all  "  and  must  be  clearly  indicated  if  it  is 
to  do  any  good.  Patients  needing  sulphur — no  matter 
how  frequently  they  bathe — will  exhale  a  disagreeable 
odor  from  their  bodies.  There  are  others  who  never 
bathe ;  they  are  filthy,  prone  to  skin  affections.  The 
itching  of  these  patients  is  intense ;  they  will  tell  you 
it  feels  good  to  scratch,  but  the  scratching  leaves  a 
burning  sensation  afterwards.  The  burning  of  sulphur, 
like  the  eternal  fires  of  Hell  is  peculiar  to  the  remedy. 
This  burning  may  be  in  the  skin,  eyes,  tongue,  mouth, 
anus,  legs,  feet,  etc.  Every  doctor  who  treats  skin 


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diseases  should  remember  that  the  action  of  sulphur  is 
to  drive  everything  towards  the  surface  of  the  body. 
It  has  this  affinity  for  the  skin.  In  the  retrocession  of 
any  eruption  upon  the  skin  this  remedy  should  be  re- 
membered. Many  eruptions  upon  the  skin  have  been 
driven  into  the  system  and  caused  serious  trouble  af- 
terwards. Drying  up  an  excessive  perspiration  of  the 
feet  has  developed  cataract  of  the  eyes.  In  one  case 
of  eczema  back  of  the  ear  in  a  baby  applications  were 
used  that  drove  in  the  eruption  and  the  child  died  in 
convulsions. 

Asthma,  angina  pectoris,  and  other  affections  have 
been  caused  by  some  skin  affection  being  driven  into 
the  system.  This  should  be  a  warning  to  the  profes- 
sion and  teach  them  that  reckless  prescribing  any  rou- 
tine treatment,  such  as  zinc  ointments  for  all  itchy 
eruptions  upon  the  skin  is  bad  therapeutics.  We  must 
depend  mainly  upon  internal  remedies;  remedies  that 
work  from  within  outwards.  Our  local  applications 
(if  any  are  ever  used)  must  be  such  as  will  heal  up  the 
eruption  upon  the  surface  of  the  body ;  never  anything 
to  drive  the  eruption  into  the  system.  This  rule  I  have 
followed  in  all  the  years  of  my  practice.  It  is  the  key- 
note to  the  successful  treatment  of  skin  diseases. 

Drinking  cold  drinks  when  the  body  is  overheated, 
going  in  swimming  when  the  body  is  covered  with 
perspiration  and  the  water  is  cold,  being  caught  out  in 
showers  when  the  body  is  overheated,  will  sometimes 
cause  an  eruption  to  appear  on  the  body.  In  such 
cases  there  is  one  remedy  which  is  indicated,  and  that 
is  bellis  perennis.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the  tincture 
three  times  a  day. 

We  often  meet  ladies  on  the  street,  at  church,  or  in 


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society  with  ugly  pimples  on  their  faces.  In  most 
cases  it  is  caused  by  the  "  constipation  habit."  The 
refuse  matter  that  should  pass  off  by  the  bowels  is  re- 
absorbed  by  the  blood  and  thus  we  see  them  on  the 
face.  Such  disfigurement  is  a  disgrace  to  any  girl  or 
woman.  One  remedy  for  such  conditions  is  sulphate 
soda.  Put  the  crystallized  soda  sulphate  in  a  close- 
mouthed  bottle  and  direct  the  patient  to  take  a  quarter 
of  a  teaspoonful  in  a  little  cold  water  the  first  thing  in 
the  morning,  not  to  act  on  the  bowels  but  to  act  on  the 
blood ;  therefore  it  is  necessary  for  the  dose  to  be  reg- 
ulated so  as  not  to  obtain  any  cathartic  effect.  The 
patient  must  be  cured  of  the  constipation  if  this  exists. 
(See  heading  "  Constipation  "  for  directions.) 

The  following  prescription  will  prove  valuable  by  its 
influence  upon  the  blood.  Ten  drops  of  tincture  ber- 
beris  aquifolium  and  two  drops  Fowler's  solution 
should  be  given  every  three  hours  to  clear  the  com- 
plexion. 

Medicated  baths,  in  skin  disease,  are  very  valuable 
for  their  effect  upon  the  pores.  The  best  one  can  be 
made  by  adding  sulphate  soda  to  the  bath,  using  one 
pound  to  the  ordinary  amount  of  water  in  a  bath  tub 
or  one  ounce  to  the  pint  of  water  for  a  sponge  bath. 
The  water  should  be  moderately  warm  and  the  baths 
should  be  taken  three  times  a  week.  These  baths  will 
aid  you  very  materially  in  curing  your  patient  of  skin 
disease. 

Erythema.  In  the  red,  hot,  dry  condition  of  the  skin 
belladonna  will  prove  very  efficacious.  Dose,  five 
drops  tincture  belladonna  in  a  glass  of  water;  of  this 
mixture  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  For  a  local 
application  use  the  distilled  extract  of  hamamelis  and 


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warm  water,  equal  parts.  Bathe  the  affected  portion 
of  the  body  frequently  with  this  solution  and  keep 
cloths  wet  in  it  on  them  constantly. 

In  erythema  nodosum  with  dark  red  skin,  itching  at 
night  and  pain  in  the  long  bones,  tincture  rhus  vene- 
nata  is  a  most  useful  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the 
third  decimal  dilution  three  times  a  day.  In  burning 
of  the  skin  with  redness  and  itching,  echinacea  can  be 
used  with  good  results. 

^     Tr.  Echinacea,  3ii. 
Aqua,  5vi. 

Mix.  Sig.  Apply  to  the  skin ;  keep  cloths  wet  with 
it  constantly  in  contact  with  the  affected  part  of  the 
body.  This  also  forms  an  admirable  application  for 
chafing  of  the  skin  wherever  situated.  The  internal 
use  of  echinacea  is  also  beneficial  in  the  erythema. 
Dose,  ten  drops  tincture  echinacea  once  in  three  hours. 

Urticaria.  When  the  skin  is  elevated,  a  white  cen- 
tral spot  and  a  red  areola  with  a  burning  stinging 
sensation  urtica  urens  is  the  first  remedy  of  which  we 
should  think.  Dose,  add  fifteen  drops  tincture  urtica 
ureus  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
once  in  two  hours.  When  there  is  a  marked  edema  of 
the  parts  with  burning,  itchy,  tingling  sensation  apis 
mel.  is  the  drug  needed.  Dose,  fifteen  drops  tincture 
apis  mel.  added  to  four  ounces  water  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  of  this  mixture  every  hour. 

When  the  patient  has  eaten  too  freely  of  meat,  or  has 
over  eaten,  has  red  areolar  patches  that  come  and  go, 
is  hot  and  thirsty,  antimonium  crudum  is  the  remedy. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  three  times  a 
day.  As  a  local  remedy  powdered  corn  starch  dusted 


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on  the  eruption  will  be  gratefully  received,  by  the  pa- 
tient; the  patient  may  also  be  bathed  all  over  with  a 
solution  of  soda  bi-carbonate,  one  ounce  to  the  pint  of 
water. 

Acne.  When  the  skin  is  rough,  persistent  acne  with 
pimples,  you  should  prescribe  tincture  berberis  aqui- 
folium  ten  drops  once  in  three  hours.  In  acne  with 
suppuration  of  the  pimples,  calcarea  sulph.  is  the  rem- 
edy required.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  second  deci- 
mal trituration  once  in  three  hours.  In  nervous,  hyper- 
sensitive females  bromide  of  potassium,  one  grain  three 
times  a  day  will  prove  beneficial.  Full-blooded  ple- 
thoric people  need  belladonna.  Dose,  five  drops  first 
decimal  dilution  once  in  three  hours.  As  a  local  ap- 
plication we  may  use  the  following  prescription: 

^     Boracic  Acid,  grs.  xv. 
Nitrate  Potash,  3ii. 
Aqua,  Zviii, 

Mix.  Sig.  This  should  be  applied  after  bathing 
and  not  washed  off. 

For  the  "  red  nose  "  we  may  apply  Bonjeans  Ergotin 
at  bedtime.  It  will  contract  the  small  blood  vessels 
and  thus  relieve  the  redness.  Ichthyol  and  vaseline 
equal  parts  is  also  a  good  local  application.  It  should 
be  used  three  times  a  day.  In  the  chronic  form  of 
acne,  juglandine  one-sixteenth  grain  and  sulph.  quinine 
one-half  grain  should  be  given  once  in  three  hours. 

Eczema.  Every  physician  doing  a  general  office  busi- 
ness meets  with  old  chronic  cases  of  some  form  of  skin 
disease,  that  have  been  the  rounds  and  "  suffered  many 
things  of  many  physicians." 

To  cure  a  case  of  this  kind  may  mean  considerable 


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to  a  doctor  who  wants  to  "  do  things  "  in  his  profes- 
sion. I  begin  the  treatment  of  these  old  chronic  cases 
by  using  the  following  prescription: 

]$     Fl.  Ext.  Podophyllum,  §ss. 
Acetate  Potash,  §ss. 
Aqua,  §viii. 

Mix.    Sig.     Teaspoonful  four  times  a  day. 

It  acts  upon  the  kidneys  and  bowels.  Acetate  pot- 
ash is  one  of  the  best  blood  depurants  we  have.  Many 
an  old  chronic  case  has  been  benefited  from  the  begin- 
ning with  this  remedy.  Frequently  the  patient  will 
ask  you  to  give  him  something  to  allay  the  itching  of 
the  eruption.  I  have  found  the  following  to  be  the 
best  all  "  round  wash,"  as  a  liquid  preparation,  for  skin 
disease  with  much  itching  of  the  parts.  It  cannot  be 
excelled. 

^     Acetic  Tr.  Lobelia. 
Aqua  rosae,  a.  a.  £iv. 

Mix.  Sig.  Bathe  the  parts  three  or  four  times  a 
day. 

Acetic  tincture  lobelia  is  made  as  follows: 

Lobelia  Seed,  §ii. 
Vinegar,  Oi. 

Mix.  Macerate  for  seven  days  and  filter;  add  one 
ounce  of  alcohol.  A  good  all  round  alterative  or 
"  Blood  Purifier  "  is  a  valuable  asset  to  any  doctor's 
office.  Many  families  in  the  spring  of  the  year  ask  for 
a  "blood  medicine."  Here  is  a  prescription  which  is 
especially  indicated  in  old  chronic  skin  diseases,  ec- 
zema, psoriasis,  salt  rheum,  etc. 


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^     Fl.  Ext.  Rumex  Crispus. 

Fl.  Ext.  Alnus  Rubra,  a.  a.  gii. 
Fl.  Ext.  Gentian. 
Fl.  Ext.  Taraxacum,  a.  a.  £i. 
Simple  Syrup,  q.  s.  Oi. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  three  times  a  day. 

Many  so-called  alterative  syrups  have  so  much  sugar 
in  them  that  they  take  away  the  patient's  appetite  and 
he  gets  sick  of  it.  The  above  formula  is  just  bitter 
enough  to  act  kindly  upon  the  stomach  and  is  well  re- 
ceived by  it.  I  have  used  this  preparation  for  many 
years  in  skin  diseases  and  have  learned  to  rely  upon  it 
very  strongly.  The  fluid  extract  in  the  above  prescrip- 
tion should  be  made  from  the  fresh  root.  (I  like 
Lloyd's.) 

In  eczema  of  babies,  a  five  per  cent,  ointment  of  sub- 
nitrate  bismuth  in  lanolin  is  the  remedy  which  should 
be  used  locally.  It  stops  the  burning  and  itching  and 
has,  in  my  hands,  cured  cases  where  other  remedies 
have  failed  to  benefit  in  the  least.  The  best  internal 
remedy  is  rhus  tox.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the  second 
decimal  dilution  once  in  three  hours. 

In  the  inflammatory  form  of  eczema  with  redness  of 
the  parts,  burning  and  itching,  the  above  remedy  will 
cure  most  every  case.  When  in  women  inclined  to 
obesity  and  habitual  constipation  we  find  an  eruption 
oozing  out  a  thick  honey-like  fluid,  that  is  glutinous, 
graphites  is  the  needed  remedy.  It  may  appear  behind 
the  ears,  in  the  palms  of  the  hands  or  on  the  legs. 
Prescribe  the  third  decimal  trituration  of  graphites, 
three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  When  in  eczema 
there  oozes  an  acrid  moisture  from  beneath  the  scabs 


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and  there  is  a  terrible  itching  which  scratching  will 
relieve  only  temporarily — the  itching  is  constantly 
breaking  out  in  new  places,  staphisagria  should  be  pre- 
scribed. Dose,  add  twenty  drops  tincture  staphisagria 
to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
two  hours. 

When  the  eczema  appears  on  the  dorsum  of  the 
hands  as  in  "Barber's  and  Grocer's  itch,"  tincture  bo- 
vista  is  the  required  agent.  Dose,  put  fifteen  drops  of 
the  third  decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass  of  water  and 
give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

In  scaly  eczema  in  various  parts  of  the  body  berberis 
aquifolium  is  the  necessary  remedy  to  cure.  Dose,  ten 
drops  tincture  berberis  once  in  three  hours.  Such  pa- 
tients should  also  take  a  bath  of  soda  sulphate  (one 
pound  to  the  ordinary  quantity  of  warm  water  in  a 
bath  tub)  three  times  a  week.  For  severe  itching  of 
inflamed  parts  I  have  used  successfully  this  prescrip- 
tion: 

I£     Carbolic  Acid,  gtts.  xxx. 
Sulph.  Morphia,  grs.  iii. 
Glycerine,  §ii. 
Aqua,  q.  s.  5vi. 

Mix.     Sig.     Apply  locally  four  times  a  day. 

In  the  dry  scaly  itchy  eruption  of  eczema,  when  I 
use  an  ointment  I  like  "Juniper  Pomade"  (Lloyd's). 
It  is  a  nice  clean  preparation  and  should  be  applied 
three  times  a  day.  During  many  years'  experience 
with  this  remedy  I  have  never  failed  to  get  good  re- 
sults. It  is  much  better  and  safer  to  use  for  eczema 
than  zinc  ointment. 

Salt  Rheum.     I  saw  a  case  of  this  condition  in  an  old 


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lady  in  Vermont.  Her  hands  were  sore  and  bleeding 
from  frequent  scratching.  The  disease  is  worse  in  the 
winter  and  itches  worse  after  the  patient  becomes 
warm  in  bed.  This  lady  had  been  tormented  by  the 
fearful  itching  until  she  was  nearly  crazy  from  it.  I 
gave  her  my  Comp.  Syr.  Rumex  crispus  (formula 
given  above)  in  teaspoonful  doses  three  times  a  day. 

There  is  in  New  England  a  species  of  hemlock  which 
is  called  "  ground  hemlock."  It  grows  about  a  foot 
high,  then  spreads  out  its  branches  and  covers  a  space 
of  from  four  to  five  feet  in  diameter.  I  have  never 
seen  it  growing  outside  of  New  England.  I  collected 
some  of  the  branches  of  this  "  ground  hemlock,"  put 
them  in  a  kettle  of  water  and  boiled  the  liquid  down  to 
an  extract.  I  then  mixed  it  with  an  equal  quantity  of 
unsalted  butter.  This  ointment  was  applied  to  the 
hands  of  the  old  lady  three  times  a  day.  I  had  her 
wash  her  hands  every  day  with  soft  soap  and  warm 
water.  Most  farmers  make  soft  soap  and  it  is  a  good 
application  both  for  salt  rheum  and  psoriasis.  Con- 
tinuing the  above  treatment  I  was  successful  in  curing 
the  old  lady  of  her  obstinate  trouble.  I  have  used  this 
ointment  of  "  ground  hemlock  "  many  times  for  salt 
rheum  and  other  obstinate  skin  diseases. 

Psoriasis.  When  the  skin  is  dry  and  impoverished, 
hands  and  feet  cold,  thyroidin  should  be  prescribed. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  second  decimal  trituration 
once  in  two  hours.  When  the  eruption  is  moist  and 
offensive,  forms  a  grayish  white  crust  lappa  seeds  is 
the  remedy.  Dose,  twenty  drops  tincture  lappa  seeds 
(burdock)  three  times  a  day.  In  these  old  stubborn 
cases  I  have  seen  a  whiskey  tincture  burdock  seeds 
make  some  fine  cures. 


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In  scaly  pustular  eruptions  on  the  face,  berberis 
aquifolia  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  twenty  drops  tincture 
berberis  three  times  a  day.  It  is  one  of  our  most  re- 
liable remedies  in  the  cure  of  psoriasis.  Many  fine 
cures  have  been  made  by  its  use.  The  baths  of  soda 
sulphate,  before  described,  should  be  used  three  times 
a  week.  A  handful  of  wheat  bran  in  the  water  will 
help  to  soften  and  remove  the  scabs  from  the  skin.  A 
good  local  application  is  made  as  follows : 

^     Tar. 
Alcohol. 
Soft  Soap,  a.  a.  *i. 

Mix.  Sig.  Apply  at  night  with  a  piece  of  soft 
white  cloth  and  bathe  thoroughly  the  next  day. 

Ichthyosis.  When  the  skin  is  dry  and  scaly  iodide 
arsenic  will  prove  curative.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  third  decimal  three  times  a  day.  Thyroidin  for 
adults  has  made  some  fine  cures  in  doses  of  five  grains 
twice  a  day.  If  the  skin  looks  dirty,  gray  and  cadav- 
erous you  should  prescribe  tincture  thuja  in  five  drop 
doses  three  times  a  day.  If  there  are  fine  scales  with 
much  itching  which  is  worse  in  bed,  indurations  of 
the  glands,  clematis  erecta  is  the  needed  medicine. 
Dose,  five  drops  tincture  clematis  three  times  a  day. 
Use  the  sulphate  soda  bath,  as  already  described  in  this 
chapter,  at  bedtime. 

Herpes,  Facial.  This  disease  is  best  treated  with 
natrum  muriaticum.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth 
decimal  every  three  hours. 

Herpes  Zoster.  When  preceded  by  intercostal  neu- 
ralgia and  there  is  burning  of  the  vesicles,  which  may 
be  of  a  bluish  or  black  color  ranunculus  bulbosus  is 


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the  remedy.  Dose,  fifteen  drops  tincture  ranunculus 
in  half  a  glass  of  water,  teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 
In  herpes  upon  the  hairy  portions  of  the  body  that  is 
accompanied  by  burning,  stinging  and  itching,  worse 
after  scratching  rhus  tox  is  indicated.  Dose,  five  drops 
of  the  second  decimal  dilution  once  in  two  hours.  In 
the  chronic  form  of  this  disease  you  should  give  the 
Comp.  Syr.  Rumex  Chrispus  (see  Eczema)  in  tea- 
spoonful  doses  three  times  a  day.  Also  use  the  soda 
sulphate  bath  as  before  mentioned. 

I  once  had  a  patient  who  had  been  the  rounds. 
There  was  a  fixed  burning  pain  in  one  side  of  the  ab- 
domen. No  remedies  had  so  far  produced  any  results. 
I  suspected  there  was  a  retrocession  of  an  eruption  of 
shingles,  and  applied  a  compound  tar  plaster  over  the 
affected  portion.  In  a  few  days  the  patient  had  a  nice 
eruption  of  shingles  broken  out  around  the  body. 
Dusting  corn  starch  on  to  the  affected  portion  will  re- 
lieve the  itching  of  shingles. 

Pityriasis  Rubra.  This  disease  appears  in  red  patches, 
generally  on  the  chest.  Tincture  erythinus,  first  deci- 
mal, is  indicated  and  should  be  given  in  five  drop  doses 
in  a  little  water  night  and  morning. 

Pemphigus.  When  the  bullae  are  surrounded  by  a 
ring  and  itch  considerably,  with  crusts  forming  on  the 
third  day  it  is  wise  to  prescribe  caltha  palustris.  Use 
the  second  decimal  dilution  and  give  five  drop  doses 
once  in  three  hours.  When  there  is  much  itching  and 
burning,  blisters  with  watery  fluid  and  peeling  of  the 
skin  rhus  tox  is  indicated.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the 
second  decimal  dilution  once  in  two  hours.  In  the 
foliaceous  variety  thuja  is  the  requisite  remedy.  It 
should  be  given  in  five  drop  doses  once  in  three  hours. 


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The  following  prescription  is  good  for  the  chronic 
variety  of  this  affection : 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Berberis  aquifolium,  §iv. 
Fowler's  Solution  arsenic,  3ii. 
Simple  Syrup,  q.  s.  §viii. 

Mix.     Sig.     Half  teaspoonful  after  each  meal. 

Lichen.  In  the  simple  form  of  this  disease  juglands 
cinerea  will  cure  most  cases.  Dose,  five  drops,  tinc- 
ture juglands  once  in  three  hours.  Locally  we  may 
apply  Fl.  Ext.  grindelia  robusta  one  part,  water  three 
parts,  three  times  a  day. 

In  the  chronic  forms  of  this  disease  I  like  the  follow- 
ing prescription  very  much  indeed : 

1$     Juglandin,  gr.  i. 

Sulph.  Quinine,  grs.  viii. 

Mix.  Divide  into  Chart.  No.  16.  Sig.  One  powder 
once  in  three  hours.  Juglands  cinerea  is  the  remedy 
indicated  in  lichen  over  all  others. 

Barber's  Itch.  In  this  affection  iodide  sulphur,  third 
decimal,  should  be  given  internally,  two  grains  once  in 
three  hours.  Apply  locally  an  ointment  composed  of 
two  grains  iodide  sulphur  to  one  ounce  of  vaseline, 
night  and  morning.  Rub  it  in  well. 

A  good  treatment  of  such  cases  is  to  remove  the 
crusts  with  flaxseed  poultice  and  apply  hot  water  on  a 
sponge  to  the  face.  Then  with  a  camel's  hair  brush 
apply  the  lotion  for  which  I  here  give  the  prescription : 

^  Creosote,  gtts.  i. 
Alcohol,  gtts.  c. 
Aqua,  gtts.  c. 


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Mix.     Sig.     Apply  locally,  as  directed. 

In  a  week  you  should  double  the  quantity  of  the  cre- 
osote. This  should  be  applied  every  other  day.  A 
more  convenient  form  to  use  locally  would  be  carbolic 
acid  gtts.  xxx,  glycerine  three  ounces.  Mix — apply 
three  times  a  day. 

Crusta  Lactea.  When  there  is  a  copious  exudation 
that  mats  the  hair,  with  burning  and  itching  which  is 
worse  at  night,  viola  tricolor  should  be  prescribed. 
Dose,  add  fifteen  drops  tincture  viola  to  a  glass  of 
water  and  give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  four  times  a 
day.  When  the  eruption  has  grayish  white  crusts,  of- 
fensive odor,  arctium  lappa  is  indicated.  Dose,  add 
thirty  drops  tincture  arctium  to  six  ounces  of  water 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

Scald  Head.  We  first  apply  to  the  parts  a  poultice 
made  as  follows : 

I£     Pulv.  Slippery  Elm,  giii. 
Pulv.  Phytolacca,  3iv. 
Pulv.  Lobelia  seed,  §i. 

Mix.  Add  boiling  water  to  make  a  poultice  and  ap- 
ply to  the  head.  This  will  soften  up  the  scabs,  after 
which  we  will  apply  an  ointment  three  times  a  day 
made  by  adding  twenty  grains  salicylic  acid  to  one 
ounce  of  vaseline  and  mixing  thoroughly.  If  this 
causes  much  smarting  more  vaseline  should  be  added. 
Viola  tricolor  is  the  internal  remedy.  Dose,  add 
twenty  drops  of  the  first  decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass 
of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  If 
there  is  much  suppuration  give  three  tablets  of  the 
sixth  decimal  of  silicea  three  times  a  day. 


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Scabies.  The  following  prescription  is  the  best  local 
application  for  this  affection : 

3     Oil  Tar,  %\. 

Tr.  Veratrum  vir.,  §i. 

Lanolin,  -jpcvi. 

Sublimed  sulphur  sufficient  to  make 

the  mass  of  the  consistency  of  an 

ointment. 

Mix.  Sig.  Apply  three  nights  in  succession,  then 
take  a  bath  and  skip  three  nights,  then  apply  it  three 
nights  more. 

This  is  Webster's  "  Comp.  Sulphur  Ointment "  from 
Webster's  "  Dynamical  Therapeutics  " — the  best  work 
on  therapeutics  ever  published  by  any  School  of  Med- 
icine. 

Ring  Worm.  The  best  local  application  in  this  af- 
fection is  glacial  acetic  acid.  It  may  be  applied  to  any 
portion  of  the  body  except  the  scalp.  Internally  you 
should  administer  the  tincture  juglands  cinerea,  five 
drops  once  in  two  hours. 

Chloasma  or  Liver  Spots.  Locally  apply  pure  lactic 
acid.  If  one  application  is  not  sufficient,  repeat  it  until 
the  epidermis  and  underlying  pigment  peel  off.  In- 
ternally you  may  prescribe  the  following : 

1$     Fl.  Ext.  Euonymus,  %\. 
Simple  Syrup,  §v. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  twice  a  day. 

Rhagades.  I  had  a  lady  come  from  Philadelphia  to 
consult  me  about  her  hands.  The  fingers  were  sore, 
cracked  open ;  she  could  not  bear  them  in  water.  It 
was  a  perfect  picture  of  graphites.  I  gave  her  the 


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third  decimal  trituration  of  this  remedy,  three  tablets 
once  in  three  hours.  In  a  week  she  reported  and  I 
found  her  hands  nearly  well. 

Prurigo.  For  the  intolerable  itching  all  over  the 
body,  worse  from  scratching  and  worse  at  night,  tinc- 
ture dolichos  pruriens  second  decimal  dilution  is  the 
remedy.  Give  it  in  five  drop  doses  three  times  a  day. 
It  is  the  remedy  which  is  especially  indicated  in  this 
form  of  skin  disease.  For  the  chronic  form  prescribe 
Comp.  Syr.  Rumex  (see  Eczema)  in  teaspoonful  doses 
three  times  a  day.  Also  use  the  soda  sulphate  bath  as 
described  earlier  in  this  chapter.  The  following  pre- 
scription makes  a  good  local  application : 

$     Acetic  Tr.  Lobelia. 
Aqua  rosae,  a.  a.  §iv. 

Mix.     Sig.     Apply  locally  three  times  a  day. 

Verruca,  or  Warts.  When  the  warts  come  in  crops 
tincture  thuja  is  the  indicated  remedy.  It  should  be 
given  in  five  drop  doses  every  three  hours.  In  alter- 
nation it  is  well  to  prescribe  one  grain  magnesia  sulph. 
once  in  three  hours.  Tincture  thuja  also  makes  a 
good  local  application  or  you  may  use  equal  parts  of 
chromic  acid  and  water.  This  turns  the  warts  black 
and  in  a  short  time  they  drop  off. 

For  suphilitic  warts  and  condylomata  keep  the  warts 
constantly  moist  with  dilute  nitric  acid  (one  drachm  to 
the  pint  of  water).  It  will  disperse  them  without  pain. 
The  application  of  tincture  thuja,  full  strength,  has 
also  proved  very  successful. 

Bromidrosis.  When  the  feet  perspire  freely  and  have 
a  bad  odor,  various  "  washes  "  are  used  to  relieve  this 
condition.  As  a  result  of  such  careless  treatment  cat- 


208  Definite  Medication 

aract  and  blindness  have  resulted.  It  is  very  much 
safer  to  treat  such  conditions  by  internal  remedies 
mainly.  When  there  is  habitual  perspiration  of  the 
feet  with  a  bad  odor  that  is  very  offensive,  you  can  re- 
lieve this  condition  by  prescribing  the  sixth  decimal 
trituration  of  silicea.  Dose,  three  tablets  every  three 
hours. 

If  the  toes  and  soles  of  the  feet  are  sore  the  third 
decimal  of  baryta  carbonica  will  be  the  remedy.  Dose, 
three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  When  there  is  a 
fetid  odor  from  the  axilla  the  sixth  decimal  trituration 
of  sepia  is  the  remedy  required.  Dose,  three  tablets 
once  in  three  hours.  This  is  especially  true  in  women 
who  are  suffering  from  obesity.  When  the  whole 
body  has  a  perspiration  that  is  intensely  disagreeable 
and  the  urine  and  feces  are  foul  smelling,  nitric  acid 
will  remove  the  condition.  Dose,  add  ten  drops  of  the 
third  decimal  dilution  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  give 
a  teaspoonful  four  times  a  day. 

Vaccnosis.  After  a  person  has  been  vaccinated  one 
or  more  times,  there  may  appear  an  eruption  on  the 
face,  swellings  in  the  axilla,  and  lumps  in  the  breast. 
It  is  the  poison  of  the  vaccine  virus  working  in  the 
system.  We  have  an  antidote  for  this  poison  in  thuja 
thirtieth  decimal  trituration.  Dose,  three  tablets  night 
and  morning. 

This  poisoning  of  the  blood  of  other  people  by  vac- 
cination is  a  blot  on  our  civilization  and  a  disgrace  to 
the  medical  profession.  It  has  caused  a  rapid  increase 
in  cancer  and  syphilis  in  every  country  where  vaccina- 
tion is  enforced. 

Prickly  Heat.  A  good  local  application  for  this  con- 
dition is  the  following  mixture : 


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IJ     Carbolic  Acid  sol. 
Pulv.  Borax,  a.  a.  3ii. 
Aqua,  ^viii. 

Mix.     Sig.     Apply  locally  as  often  as  is  needed. 

Cancer.  The  treatment  of  cancer  in  all  its  forms, 
also  lupus  and  tumors,  including  ovarian  and  fibroid 
tumors  of  the  uterus  should  be  the  subject  of  a  volume 
by  itself.  I  have  often  been  urged  to  write  a  book  on 
the  treatment  of  cancer,  but  at  my  age  and  physical 
condition  it  may  be  doubtful  if  I  ever  live  to  see  such 
a  work  completed.  No  doubt  my  experience  with  can- 
cer would  be  of  great  value  to  the  medical  profession 
as  I  have  spent  forty  years  in  the  study  and  treatment 
of  cancerous  affections  in  all  their  various  forms. 

The  Eclectic  School  of  Medicine  was  the  pioneer  in 
the  successful  treatment  of  cancer  by  internal  medica- 
tion, while  the  Regular  School  with  their  theory  that 
it  was  a  local  disease  were  cutting  out  everything 
which  looked  like  a  cancer  and  have  miserably  failed 
to  cure  it. 

By  my  method  of  treating  cancer  as  a  blood  or  con- 
stitutional disease  (as  I  was  taught  in  the  Eclectic 
College  over  forty  years  ago)  I  have  cured  eighty  per 
cent,  of  the  cases  of  cancer  which  have  come  under  my 
treatment.  I  honestly  believe,  from  my  own  experi- 
ence, that  ninety-five  per  cent,  of  the  cases  of  cancer  in 
our  country  could  be  cured  by  medicine  if  treated  be- 
fore any  operation  or  the  use  of  X-Ray.  Hypodermic 
treatment  of  cancer  has  failed  to  cure  the  disease  as 
any  purely  local  treatment  will  do  in  the  future  even 
as  it  has  in  the  past. 

I  have  at  different  times  reported  cases  of  cancer 


210  Definite  Medication 

successfully  treated  in  different  Medical  Journals  to 
prove  that  cancer  could  be  cured  with  medicine.  Phy- 
sicians have  visited  me  from  all  over  the  United  States, 
Canada  and  Mexico  to  take  a  post-graduate  course  of 
study  to  fit  them  for  the  special  work  of  treating  this 
disease,  for  it  is  a  specialty  just  as  much  as  the  eye,  ear, 
surgery  or  gynecology. 

Fifty  thousand  victims  of  cancer  are  dying  yearly 
because  they  do  not  receive  proper  medical  treatment. 
The  demand  for  physicians  who  can  treat  cancer  suc- 
cessfully was  never  so  great  as  at  the  present  time. 
The  people  have  been  duped  long  enough.  They  know 
now  that  the  surgical  operations  not  only  do  not  cure 
cancer  but  actually  hasten  the  death  of  the  victims  and 
increase  their  suffering.  The  day  will  come  when  it 
will  be  considered  a  crime  to  cut  out  a  cancer.  May 
God  hasten  the  day. 


CHAPTER  XIV 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES    FOR   THE    BLOOD 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XIV 

SPECIAL    REMEDIES    FOR   THE    BLOOD 

ANEMIA.  When  by  the  least  emotion  or  ex- 
ertion the  face  becomes  red,  flushed,  which  is 
always  better  by  moving  about — notwithstand- 
ing that  weakness  obliges  the  patient  to  lie  down,  pale- 
ness of  the  mucous  membranes,  especially  the  mouth, 
rush  of  blood  to  the  head,  flashes  of  heat  in  the  face, 
ferrum  metalicum  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose, 
three  tablets  of  the  first  decimal  trituration  once  in 
three  hours.  In  such  cases  the  heart  is  weak  and  the 
patient  suffers  from  general  debility.  Give  the  third 
decimal  trituration  of  digitalin,  three  tablets  once  in 
three  hours  in  alternation  with  the  ferrum  and  you 
have  an  ideal  treatment  for  anemia.  It  is  just  the 
treatment  needed  for  broken-down  constitutions. 
When  the  face  presents  a  pale  hippocratic  expression, 
eyes  sunken  and  surrounded  by  dark  rings,  when  there 
has  been  a  drain  upon  the  system  from  hemorrhages, 
diarrhea,  lactation,  suppuration  or  sexual  excesses, 
cinchona  (china)  is  the  needed  drug.  Dose,  add 
twenty  drops  tincture  cinchona  to  half  a  glass  of  water 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours.  When  the 
patient  eats  well  but  still  looks  pale  and  emaciated,  has 
throbbing  headaches,  shortness  of  breath,  scanty  men- 
struation, constipation  and  depression  of  spirits  na- 
trum  muriaticum  is  indicated.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  sixth  decimal  trituration  once  in  three  hours. 
When  a  woman  has  some  form  of  displacement,  is 


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conscious  that  she  has  a  womb,  it  is  sore  and  tender; 
she  is  tired  and  anemic — worn  out  by  hard  work,  men- 
tal or  physical,  back  feels  tired  and  weak,  frequently 
albumen  will  be  found  in  the  urine,  helonias  dioica 
should  be  prescribed.  It  is  one  of  the  best  blood  mak- 
ers that  we  have.  Dose,  five  drops  tincture  helonias 
three  times  a  day. 

When  children  grow  too  rapidly,  bones  soften,  there 
is  curvature  of  the  spine,  or  women  have  profuse  men- 
struation and  bear  children  too  rapidly,  with  prolonged 
lactation  you  should  not  forget  calcarea  phos.  Dose, 
three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  four  times  a  day. 

Cerebral  Anemia.  When  there  is  confusion  of  ideas, 
vertigo,  mania,  pallor,  mental  apathy,  headache  and 
mental  depression,  the  remedy  that  is  needed  is  cal- 
carea phos.  and  should  be  given  in  doses  of  three  tab- 
lets of  the  third  decimal  once  in  three  hours.  Kali 
phos.  sixth  decimal,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours 
should  be  given  in  alternation  with  the  calcarea  phos. 

Pernicious  Anemia.  When  there  is  a  heavy  tired  feel- 
ing all  over  the  body  from  mental  or  physical  over- 
work, which  is  worse  from  the  slightest  excitement, 
burning  pains  along  the  spine  acidum  picricum  is  the 
needed  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  deci- 
mal trituration  once  in  two  hours.  The  more  pro- 
found the  prostration  the  stronger  is  the  indication  for 
the  above  remedy. 

When  there  is  great  restlessness  of  the  mind,  ex- 
haustion from  the  slightest  exertion,  burning  pains 
with  clammy  perspiration  and  cold  skin  that  feels  like 
parchment — white  and  pasty,  arsenicum  album  is  the 
remedy  to  be  used.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third 
decimal  once  in  three  hours.  I  have  also  had  good 


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results  in  my  practice  from  the  use  of  calcarea  phos., 
third  decimal,  three  tablets  every  three  hours. 

In  one  case  of  pernicious  anemia  that  I  saw  in  con- 
sultation there  was,  in  addition  to  the  enlargement  of 
the  spleen,  a  pain  in  the  left  side,  nausea,  uneasiness, 
pain,  vomiting  with  inflation  of  the  abdomen.  Car- 
duus  was  the  remedy  indicated.  I  prescribed  tincture 
carduus  marise  five  drops  three  times  a  day.  This  re- 
duced the  size  of  the  spleen.  I  also  gave  three  tablets 
of  the  third  decimal  trituration  of  calcarea  phos.  four 
times  a  day  as  a  tonic  and  blood  maker.  The  above 
treatment  restored  the  patient  to  health. 

In  another  case  which  I  saw  in  consultation,  a  for- 
mer physician  had  given  the  patient  castor  oil  until 
she  became  so  constipated  that  the  nurse  was  obliged 
to  dig  the  feces  out  of  the  rectum  with  a  stick.  This 
treatment  was  peculiar  and  I  cannot  see  the  philosophy 
of  it.  Castor  oil  is  good  for  some  things  but  it  was  not 
indicated  for  this  woman. 

Scrofula.  When  there  is  glandular  enlargement,  the 
skin  showing  an  unhealthy  look — like  eczema,  with  in- 
digestion from  a  lack  of  gastric  juice  and  marasmus 
alnus  rubra  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops 
tincture  alnus  three  times  a  day. 

When  there  are  hard  lumps  in  the  neck,  and  ab- 
scesses and  ulcers  in  a  patient  with  scrofulous  diathesis 
you  should  prescribe  tincture  cistus  canadensis,  ten 
drops  in  half  a  glass  of  water,  giving  a  teaspoonful 
once  in  two  hours.  When  the  patient  is  lymphatic, 
light  hair,  and  complexion,  soft  flabby  muscles,  craves 
strong  acid  food,  is  peevish,  very  sensitive  nature, 
hepar  sulph.  should  be  prescribed.  Dose,  three  tablets 
of  the  third  decimal  once  in  three  hours.  Iodine  is  in- 


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dicated  when  the  patients  are  weak,  get  out  of  breath 
easily  going  upstairs,  have  a  large  appetite  but  grad- 
ually become  emaciated,  much  gas  in  the  stomach  with 
eructations,  glands  enlarged  and  indurated.  Dose,  ten 
drops  of  the  sixth  decimal  dilution  of  tincture  iodine 
once  in  three  hours. 

In  children  when  the  abdomen  is  distended,  perspi- 
ration upon  the  head  in  large  beads,  open  sutures  and 
fontanelles,  ankles  are  weak  and  the  child  is  slow  in 
learning  to  walk,  give  silicea  the  sixth  decimal  tritura- 
tion.  Dose,  three  tablets  three  times  a  day. 

In  one  case  of  a  child  brought  to  me  for  treatment 
where  scrofula  had  been  inherited  and  the  child  was 
thought  to  be  in  consumption,  I  found  the  glands  un- 
der the  jaw  were  swollen  and  painful.  I  applied  as  a 
poultice  to  reduce  the  swelling  the  following  mixture : 

^     Pulv.  Phytolacca  root. 
Pulv.  Myrica. 
Pulv.  Lobelia  Seed. 
Pulv.  Slippery  Elm,  a.  a.  §ss. 

Mix.  Make  a  poultice  with  warm  water  and  apply 
to  the  swelling  once  in  two  hours.  Internally  I  gave  a 
powder  composed  of  one  grain  each  of  the  first  decimal 
of  rumin  and  the  first  decimal  of  ferri  phos.,  every  three 
hours.  This  treatment  cured  the  child.  Rumex  cris- 
pus  is  a  grand  remedy  in  scrofula. 

A  man  came  to  me  who  had  been  afflicted  with  scro- 
fula from  a  child.  He  had  swellings  form  in  the  neck 
break  and  discharge.  Some  doctors  called  it  cancer, 
others  could  not  tell  what  it  was.  It  was  a  clear  case 
of  scrofula.  I  applied  the  poultice  as  given  above  and 
gave  internally  the  following: 


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^     Tr.  Thuja. 

Tr.  Baptisia,  a.  a.  §iss. 

Mix.  Sig.  Fifteen  drops  before  each  meal,  and  at 
bedtime.  I  also  gave  him  three  tablets  of  the  sixth 
decimal  trituration  of  silicea  after  each  meal.  This 
treatment  was  followed  until  the  man  was  discharged 
cured,  and  in  better  health  than  he  had  been  before 
during  his  life.  My  case  book  will  show  a  large  num- 
ber of  cases  of  children  which  I  have  treated  and  cured 
of  scrofula  where  other  physicians  had  failed. 

Abscess.  During  the  forming  stage  of  an  abscess, 
when  there  is  throbbing,  sticking  pains,  hepar  sulph.  is 
the  remedy  needed.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  first 
decimal  every  three  hours.  When  the  abscess  has  dis- 
charged long  enough  and  the  suppuration  does  not 
show  signs  of  checking,  you  should  prescribe  the  sec- 
ond decimal  trituration  of  calcarea  sulph.  Dose,  three 
tablets  once  in  three  hours.  For  the  pain  before  the 
pus  has  formed  Libradol  (Lloyd's)  may  be  spread  on 
white  paper  and  applied  to  alleviate  it.  If  the  pain  in- 
creases with  beating  and  throbbing  in  the  part,  then 
pus  is  forming  and  a  poultice  should  be  applied  made 
of  equal  parts  of  pulverized  slippery  elm,  lobelia  seed 
and  flaxseed.  Mix  with  warm  water  and  apply  to  the 
swollen  part.  Change  the  poultice  once  in  two  hours. 

The  above  poultice  was  handed  down  to  us  by  the 
Eclectic  fathers  and  is  worth  its  weight  in  gold  for 
swellings  in  any  portion  of  the  body.  After  the  ab- 
scess has  discharged  freely  and  you  wish  to  heal  it  up, 
apply  the  "  yellow  healing  salve  " — a  remedy  of  my 
own  which  I  have  used  for  forty  years  as  a  healing 
salve.  It  cannot  be  excelled. 


218  Definite  Medication 

I£     Burgundy  Pitch. 

White  Pine  Turpentine. 
Beeswax. 
Mutton  Tallow. 
Olive  Oil,  a.  a.  Si- 
Melt  with  heat,  strain  and  add  Cosmoline  ^v. 
Mix.     Sig.     Spread  on  soft  white  cloth  to  cover  the 
sore.     Apply  three  times  a  day.     It  will  draw  all  the 
pus  out  of  the  sore  and  heal  it  up.     If  it  draws  too 
hard,  causing  pain  and  smarting  it  should  be  weakened 
with  one-third  vaseline. 

In  one  case  of  an  old  lady  about  sixty  years  of  age 
who  had  a  fearful  looking  sore  on  her  leg  that  extended 
almost  around  the  leg  and  nearly  six  inches  in  diam- 
eter, I  healed  it  completely  with  this  ointment.  Some 
patients  will  contract  the  "  abscess  habit."  One  ab- 
scess follows  another  in  rapid  succession.  Three  tab- 
lets once  in  three  hours  of  the  second  decimal  calcarea 
sulph.  will  generally  put  an  end  to  this  condition.  Ten 
drops  tincture  echinacea  once  in  three  hours  will  also 
prove  effectual,  especially  if  there  are  symptoms  of 
blood  poisoning.  In  elderly  people  the  alnus  rubra 
should  be  prescribed.  Dose,  alnunin  first  decimal 
three  tablets  once  in  three  hours. 

In  a  case  of  cancer  which  I  was  treating  in  connec- 
tion with  two  other  doctors,  an  abscess  formed — as  a 
complication — in  the  right  buttock  about  six  inches 
back  of  the  anus.  When  it  opened  the  outer  opening 
was  as  large  as  my  two  hands  placed  side  by  side 
partly  open.  The  passage  extended  obliquely  towards 
the  rectum  which  it  touched — but  did  not  enter — 
about  eight  inches  above  the  anus.  The  other  two 


Definite  Medication  219 

physicians,  who  had  been  in  practice  many  years  said 
they  had  never  seen  anything  like  it  and  did  not  see 
how  it  could  be  healed.  I  told  them  I  would  heal  it 
completely.  Locally  we  used  the  "  Eclectic  Wash." 
(See  formula  under  varicose  ulcers.)  The  abscess 
cavity  was  cleansed  with  this  wash  three  times  a  day 
and  gauze  wet  with  it  was  packed  into  the  cavity  after 
each  cleansing.  Internally  we  gave  her  echafolta 
(Lloyd's)  in  drachm  doses  once  in  three  hours.  In  a 
week  or  ten  days  her  stomach  rebelled  against  the 
echafolta,  so  we  substituted  tincture  echinacea  ten 
drops  once  in  three  hours.  The  above  treatment  was 
continued  until  the  abscess  cavity  was  completely 
closed  and  in  good  condition.  The  patient  was  sev- 
enty-five years  old.  This  is  only  another  instance  of 
what  Eclectic  remedies  will  accomplish  even  in  the 
most  desperate  cases. 

Boils.  In  the  first  stage  of  boils,  abscesses  and  car- 
buncles we  have  a  localized  congestion  and  belladonna 
is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  tincture 
belladonna  added  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  a  tea- 
spoonful  given  every  hour. 

When  a  boil  first  shows  itself  we  can  sometimes 
check  its  further  progress  by  painting  it  with  equal 
parts  of  tincture  aconite,  tincture  hamamelis  and  tinc- 
ture arnica.  Paint  the  affected  part  with  this  mixture 
once  in  two  hours.  If  it  appears  that  the  pus  will 
form  and  the  pain  increases  apply  the  poultice  as  de- 
scribed under  abscess.  I  have  had  success  in  breaking 
up  the  "  boil  habit "  with  tincture  arctium  lappa,  bur- 
dock seeds.  Dose,  ten  drops  of  the  tincture  three 
times  a  day.  Echinacea  is  also  a  good  remedy  for  this 
condition.  The  more  depraved  the  blood  the  stronger 


220  Definite  Medication 

the  indication  for  the  echinacea.     Calcarea  sulph.  sec- 
ond decimal  should  not  be  forgotten. 

Carbuncle.  Echinacea  is  the  first  remedy  to  be 
thought  of  in  this  condition.  Dose,  ten  drops  tincture 
echinacea  once  in  two  hours.  Also  apply  it  locally  full 
strength.  The  quickest  way  to  get  rid  of  a  carbuncle 
is  to  use  the  following  method.  Apply  a  large  cupping 
glass  to  the  swelling  and  exhaust  the  air  until  all  the 
pus  has  been  drawn  from  the  cribriform  cells  into  the 
glass.  Then  remove  the  glass  and  wash  the  place  with 
a  solution  of  carbolic  acid  (one  part  to  eight  parts  of 
water).  Keep  cloths  saturated  with  the  solution  on  the 
carbuncle.  When  it  becomes  painful  apply  the  glass 
again.  Upon  the  first  application  the  patient  will  com- 
plain some  of  the  pain,  but  as  soon  as  it  begins  the 
peculiar  throbbing  pain,  he  will  ask  for  the  glass  to  be 
applied  again.  Two  or  three  applications  of  the  glass 
will  exhaust  the  pus.  Place  the  glass  each  time  in  the 
same  indenture  round  the  carbuncle.  One  day's  using 
the  glass  will  remove  more  pus  than  three  days'  poul- 
ticing. In  three  days  you  will  conquer  the  disease. 
Internally  give  the  indicated  remedy.  Echinacea  will 
prove  useful  as  will  also  strychnia  sulph.  one-thirtieth 
grain  after  each  meal  and  at  bedtime.  With  all  the 
good  remedies  at  our  command  no  person  ought  to  die 
of  this  disease.  Hepar  sulph.,  sixth  decimal  should 
be  given  when  the  carbuncle  begins  to  discharge. 
Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  Kali  mur., 
third  decimal  is  the  indicated  remedy  to  be  given  in 
the  first  stage  to  abort  the  disease.  Dose,  add  five 
grains  of  the  third  decimal  to  a  cup  of  hot  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  When  the  car- 
buncle has  a  purplish  color  and  there  are  burning, 


Definite  Medication  221 

stinging  pains,  gangrenous  appearance,  tarantula 
cubensis  third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  add  fif- 
teen drops  tincture  tarantula  to  half  a  glass  of  water 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  Try  this 
remedy  in  felons  or  swellings  of  a  bluish  color  with 
intense  burning  pain.  It  soothes  the  patient  and  gives 
them  sleep.  The  dose  should  not  be  less  than  the 
third  decimal  and  be  given  as  specified  above. 

Chlorosis.  In  this  condition,  if  we  go  back  over  the 
history  of  the  case,  we  will  find  that  the  female  con- 
tracted a  cold  at  the  menstrual  period.  If  pulsatilla 
had  been  given  at  that  time  it  would  have  saved  the 
patient  further  trouble.  When  there  is  a  pale,  dirty 
looking  skin,  oppression  of  the  chest,  palpitation  of 
the  heart,  head  aches,  worse  from  sunrise  to  sunset, 
nausea  and  vomiting,  before,  during  and  after  the 
menses,  natrum  muriaticum  sixth  decimal  should  be 
prescribed.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours. 
In  chlorosis  when  there  are  symptoms  of  dropsy,  urine 
is  scanty,  face  bloated,  abdomen  enlarged,  feet  edema- 
tous,  frequent  desire  to  urinate  day  and  night,  tincture 
senecio  aurens  first  decimal  dilution  is  the  indicated 
drug.  Dose,  ten  drops  once  in  two  hours.  When  the 
patient  is  weak,  pale,  tired — must  sit  down  to  rest, 
menses  scanty,  delayed,  pale  colored,  patient  much  ex- 
hausted after  the  flow,  often  a  profuse  leucorrhea  takes 
the  place  of  the  menstrual  period  and  soiling  her  cloth- 
ing badly  if  she  does  not  wear  a  napkin,  the  third  deci- 
mal trituration  of  alumina  is  the  needed  remedy.  Dose, 
three  tablets  once  in  three  hours. 

When  there  is  weakness  and  relaxation  of  the  whole 
muscular  system,  together  with  emaciation  and  cold- 
ness of  the  extremities,  the  patient  has  vertigo,  palpi- 


222  Definite  Medication 

tation  of  the  heart  and  dyspnea,  indigestion,  vomiting 
of  food  after  eating,  at  the  least  exertion  face  becomes 
red,  I  like  ferrum  metalicum  first  decimal  as  the  rem- 
edy. Dose,  three  tablets  every  three  hours.  In  alter- 
nation with  this  remedy  you  should  prescribe  the  third 
decimal  trituration  of  digitalin,  giving  three  tablets 
every  three  hours.  These  two  remedies  will  cure  the 
majority  of  cases  of  chlorosis. 

Scurvy.  Fortunately  we  have  one  remedy  which  is 
especially  adapted  to  the  symptoms  of  this  condition. 
The  tender  spongy  gums,  poor  appetite,  diarrhea, 
bloated  abdomen,  calls  for  rhus  glabra.  It  should  be 
used  in  connection  with  an  iron  preparation.  I  like 
the  following: 

I£     Rhus  Glabra  Ix.  grs.  v. 
Ferri  Carbonas,  grs.  ss. 

Mix.  Make  one  powder.  Sig.  Give  one  of  these 
powders  every  three  hours  followed  by  a  teaspoonful 
of  lemon  syrup  after  each  powder.  A  mouth  wash 
may  be  made  by  adding  one  drachm  tincture  rhus 
glabra  to  one  ounce  of  glycerine.  Mix  and  apply  to 
the  tender  swollen  gums.  There  is  no  other  remedy 
which  will  accomplish  what  this  drug  will  do  in  this 
disease. 

Purpura.  In  the  hemorrhage  of  dark,  clotted,  ve- 
nous blood,  hamamelis  has  rendered  good  service  in 
purpura.  Dose,  tincture  hamamelis  ten  drops  once  in 
three  hours.  Ergotin,  one  grain  every  three  hours  is 
also  a  good  remedy  for  this  condition.  My  choice  of  a 
drug  for  this  condition,  however,  would  be  lachesis. 
It  seems  to  be  especially  adapted  to  this  disease. 
Dose,  add  twenty  drops  of  the  sixth  decimal  dilution 


Definite  Medication  223 

to  a  glass  of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  two 
hours. 

Leucocytlicmia.  For  the  great  prostration  found  in 
this  disease,  picric  acid  is  the  first  remedy  to  be  con- 
sidered. Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  once 
in  three  hours.  For  patients  that  are  pale,  weak, 
easily  tired  by  any  form  of  exertion,  are  disposed  to 
become  corpulent  with  muscles  that  are  soft  and  flabby, 
calcarea  carb.,  first  decimal,  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five 
tablets  three  times  a  day.  Where  there  is  a  gonorrheal 
anamensis  thuja  will  prove  of  value.  Dose,  tincture 
thuja,  three  drops  three  times  a  day. 

If  the  patient  takes  cold  easily,  is  worse  in  damp 
weather,  symptoms  return  at  precisely  the  same  time 
each  day,  aranea  diadema  is  the  indicated  remedy. 
Dose,  add  ten  drops  of  the  third  decimal  to  half  a  glass 
of  water  and  give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  once  in 
three  hours.  Menispermin  (con)  is  especially  indi- 
cated in  this  disease,  as  it  stimulates  the  entire  vascu- 
lar system,  also  the  lymphatic  glands,  increases  the 
appetite,  aids  digestion,  promotes  absorption  and  as- 
similation. Dose,  two  grains  four  times  a  day. 

Erysipelas.  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  rhus  tox  is  as 
great  an  antidote  to  the  poison  of  erysipelas  as  quinine 
is  for  malaria.  In  a  case  of  erysipelas  the  burning, 
stinging,  itchy  feeling  of  the  part  and  tire  red,  shiny 
appearance  of  the  skin  calls  for  rhus  tox.  In  this  dis- 
ease, when  it  affects  any  portion  of  the  face,  there  will 
usually  be  head  symptoms  which  call  for  belladonna, 
so  in  such  cases  I  usually  combine  the  two  remedies. 
^  Tr.  Belladonna. 

Tr.  Rhus  Tox,  a.  a.  gtts.  x. 
Aqua,  §iv. 


224  Definite  Medication 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Locally  I  apply  equal  parts  of  warm  water  and  dis- 
tilled extract  hamamelis.  Bathe  the  parts  frequently 
with  this  solution  and  keep  cloths  saturated  with  it  in 
constant  contact  with  the  affected  portion.  It  feels 
good  to  the  patient  and  is  the  best  local  application. 
(I  have  had  erysipelas  myself  in  the  face ;  I  used  this 
wash  and  know  how  it  feels.)  When  the  skin  be- 
comes moist,  the  pulse  soft  and  the  tongue  begins  to 
clean  you  should  give  the  patient  two  grains  of  qui- 
nine once  in  three  hours. 

I  have  never  had  a  relapse  or  a  second  attack  of 
the  disease  in  a  patient  that  I  have  treated.  I  have 
seen  the  disease  in  all  its  forms  but  have  never  lost  a 
case  in  forty  years'  practice.  At  one  time  I  treated  a 
baby  ten  days  old  who  fell  out  of  bed  and  developed  a 
case  of  erysipelas.  It  manifested  itself  in  the  head 
and  went  all  over  the  body.  The  child  lay  in  con- 
vulsions for  a  week;  as  it  was  the  first  child  whose 
birth  I  had  witnessed  I  determined  that  it  should  live 
and  it  did.  In  a  middle-aged  lady  in  New  Hampshire 
I  met  with  another  severe  case  of  erysipelas.  This 
case  settled  in  her  stomach  so  that  she  could  not  re- 
tain any  food  or  drink  on  her  stomach.  Small  pieces 
of  ice  were  given  in  teaspoonful  doses  and  the  rhus 
tox  and  belladonna  were  given  as  in  the  two  preced- 
ing cases.  She  recovered  perfectly.  Another  case 
was  where  a  young  man  had  erysipelas  in  his  arm. 
He  had  been  treated  for  rheumatism  by  three  doctors. 
All  kinds  of  liniments  had  been  used  but  he  continually 
grew  worse.  When  I  saw  him  the  arm  was  swollen  to 
twice  its  usual  size  and  was  very  painful.  The  first 
thing  I  did  was  to  apply  the  "  poultice  powder  "  (see 


Definite  Medication  225 

abscess)  once  in  two  hours.  Internally  I  gave  him  a 
teaspoonful  Elixir  lodo  Bromide  Calcium  (Tilden  & 
Co.)  three  times  a  day.  At  my  second  visit  I  lanced 
the  swelling  in  the  arm  and  obtained  a  pint  of  pus. 
The  man  recovered  although  many  people  expected 
that  he  would  surely  die.  I  have  had  erysipelas  arise 
as  a  complication  in  twelve  cases  of  cancer  on  the  face. 
It  had  about  as  much  effect  on  the  cancer  as  so  much 
water,  thus  exploding  the  foolish  theory  of  the  Old 
School  that  the  inoculation  of  cancer  by  erysipelas 
would  cure  the  former  disease.  It  is  about  time  that 
they  stopped  theorizing  about  cancer  and  learned  how 
to  cure  it.  The  fathers  of  the  Eclectic  School  of  Med- 
icine taught  their  students  that  cancer  was  a  blood  dis- 
ease and  how  to  cure  it. 

Glanders.  Bi-chromate  potash  seems  to  cover  the 
nasal  symptoms.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  deci- 
mal once  in  three  hours.  For  the  constitutional  symp- 
toms you  should  prescribe  tincture  echinacea.  Dose, 
ten  drops  once  in  three  hours.  Quinine  should  be 
given  as  it  is  needed  to  act  as  an  antiseptic  and  to  keep 
up  the  vitality  of  the  patient. 

Septicemia.  The  chills,  high  temperature,  and  weak, 
rapid  pulse  are  the  warning  symptoms  of  blood  poison- 
ing. To  prevent  suppuration  give  kali  mur.,  third  dec- 
imal, five  grains  in  a  cup  of  water ;  of  this  mixture  give 
a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  If  suppuration  has  already 
taken  place  prescribe  the  following:  Tincture  echina- 
cea, an  ounce  and  a  half,  glycerine  one  ounce,  water 
three  and  a  half  ounces.  Mix.  Give  a  teaspoonful 
once  in  two  hours.  Give  also  the  second  decimal  cal- 
carea  sulph.  three  tablets  every  three  hours.  To  the 
wound  apply  equal  parts  of  echafolta  and  water. 


226  Definite  Medication 

Keep  cloths  saturated  with  this  mixture  in  constant 
contact  with  the  infected  portion.  Remember  that  the 
more  foul  the  odor  the  stronger  is  the  indication  for 
echafolta  and  echinacea.  Administer  two  grains  of 
quinine  once  in  three  hours  to  keep  up  the  vitality  of 
the  patient.  If  the  pulse  does  not  respond  to  the  tonic 
action  of  the  quinine  you  should  prescribe  ^so  grain  of 
glonoin  every  fifteen  minutes,  until  the  head  feels  full 
and  the  face  is  flushed.  Watch  the  pulse  and  give  the 
glonoin  if  the  pulse  goes  down  and  there  is  faintness. 
Sometimes  at  the  crisis  when  patients  are  very  weak  it 
is  necessary  to  give  two  granules  of  glonoin  ^so  grain 
once  in  three  hours.  If  feet  or  hands  swell  from  the 
wound  of  a  rusty  nail  or  some  other  blunt  instrument 
apply  the  powder  poultice  (see  abscess)  to  aid  the 
wound  to  discharge  freely.  When  the  skin  turns  pur- 
ple or  bluish  as  if  mortification  were  impending  do  not 
forget  lachesis.  Dose,  two  grains,  sixth  decimal,  once 
in  two  hours. 

I  had  blood  poisoning,  myself,  about  twenty  years 
ago.  I  was  inoculated  by  a  cancer.  It  began  in  my 
right  hand  on  the  third  finger.  The  whole  hand 
swelled  to  twice  its  size.  The  severe  pain  extended  up 
the  arm,  the  most  severe  pain  I  ever  experienced.  The 
finger  was  so  swollen  that  it  broke  open.  I  treated  it, 
myself,  according  to  the  treatment  given  above  and 
cured  it.  The  hand  was  weak  for  many  years  after- 
wards. I  have  had  many  cases  of  blood  poisoning  in 
my  own  practice  and  have  been  called  in  consultation 
to  several  others.  As  yet  I  am  not  forced  to  record 
any  fatal  terminations.  I  have  treated  them  in  accord 
with  the  plan  indicated  above  and  "  fight  it  out  on  that 
line." 


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Aneurism.  For  the  pain  from  the  aneurism  iodide 
potash  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  ten  grains  three  times  a 
day.  When  there  is  hardness  and  tension  of  the  pulse, 
tincture  veratrum  viride  is  indicated.  Dose,  five  drops 
of  the  first  decimal  dilution  three  times  a  day.  As  a 
curative  agent  chloride  barium  is  the  best  remedy. 
Dose,  three  grains  of  the  third  decimal  three  or  four 
times  a  day. 

Calcarea  flouride,  third  decimal  has  also  made  some 
good  cures.  Dose,  three  tablets  every  three  hours.  A 
compress  should  be  kept  constantly  applied,  wet  with 
Epsom  salts — one  ounce  to  the  pint  of  warm  water. 

Rheumatism.  When  the  patient  screams  out  when 
touched  on  the  affected  part,  limbs  weak,  stiff  and  fe- 
verish, pains  shift  from  place  to  place,  worse  at  night, 
colchicum  is  the  needed  remedy.  Wine  of  colchicum 
may  be  given  in  five  drop  doses  three  times  a  day,  or 
colchicine  (Merck).  If  you  use  the  latter  make  a  so- 
lution (one  grain  to  the  ounce)  and  give  five  to  ten 
drops  once  in  three  hours.  Some  eighty  cases  were 
treated  with  the  above  remedy,  with  the  following  re- 
sults. "  Relief  of  pain  within  twenty-four  hours ; 
within  forty-eight  hours  the  patient  is  generally  com- 
fortable ;  swelling,  pain,  perspiration  much  diminished. 
In  three  or  four  days  the  disease  is  under  control." 
When  the  muscles  feel  stiff  and  sore,  when  they  have 
been  strained,  in  exposure  to  rain  or  damp  sheets, 
lameness,  stiffness  and  pain  when  first  begins  to  move, 
better  after  he  gets  "  limbered  up,"  rhus  tox  is  the  rem- 
edy. Dose,  add  five  drops  tincture  rhus  tox  to  four 
ounces  of  water;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
hour.  The  rhus  tox  is  the  remedy  for  lumbago,  and 
should  be  given  as  directed  above.  For  local  applica- 


228  Definite  Medication 

tion  apply  a  liniment  composed  of  equal  parts  of  col- 
lodium,  tincture  iodine  and  aqua  ammonia.  Mix.  Sig. 
Apply  over  the  affected  part  with  a  camel's  hair  brush. 
For  lumbago  I  have  found  the  following  prescription 
valuable : 

ff  Tr.  Cimicifuga. 
Tr.  Gelsemium. 
Tr.  Bryonia,  a.  a.  oss. 

Mix.     Sig.     Ten  drops  once  in  half  an  hour. 

When  there  is  a  bruised  pain,  stiffness  and  lameness, 
soreness  and  a  bubbling  sensation  in  the  region  of  the 
kidneys,  when  patient  is  sitting  he  rises  with  difficulty, 
kidneys  are  usually  affected,  you  should  prescribe 
tincture  berberis  vulgaris.  Dose,  put  twenty  drops  in 
half  a  glass  of  water  and  give  teaspoonful  every  two 
hours.  Do  not  forget  the  "  back  pains  "  of  this  rem- 
edy. When  the  pains  of  rheumatism  are  worse  at  the 
approach  of  a  storm  and  when  the  patient  is  at  rest, 
also  when  the  pain  is  of  a  drawing  tearing  character, 
rhododendron  is  the  remedy  needed.  Dose,  add  twenty 
drops  tincture  rhododendron  to  four  ounces  of  water ; 
of  this  mixture  give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  once  in 
two  hours.  Cascara  sagada  is  indicated  in  rheumatism 
when  there  is  headache,  constipation,  foul  breath,  and 
broad  flabby  tongue.  Dose,  add  two  ounces  tincture 
cascara  to  the  same  quantity  of  glycerine;  mix  and 
give  teaspoonful  doses  every  three  hours. 

In  articular  rheumatism  with  serous  effusion,  ag- 
gravated by  moisture  and  touch,  profuse  perspiration, 
pains  are  shifting,  and  burning,  worse  at  night,  the 
remedy  needed  is  acidum  salicylicum.  Dose,  five 
grains  every  three  hours.  When  the  patient  is  very 


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thirsty,  drinks  large  quantities  of  water,  at  long  inter- 
vals, pains  are  tearing,  stitching,  worse  on  motion  and 
at  night,  bryonia  is  the  needed  drug.  Dose,  add  ten 
drops  tincture  bryonia  to  four  ounces  of  water,  and 
give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

As  a  liniment  for  rheumatism  I  like  the  following 
prescription : 

I£     Tr.  Capsicum,  5"- 
Oil  Origanum. 
Oil  Sassafras,  a.  a.  3ii. 
Tr.  Opium. 

Spts.  Ammonia,  a.  a.  Siii. 
Tr.  Camphor,  3i. 

Mix.  Sig.  Rub  well  into  the  affected  parts  three 
times  a  day.  This  cannot  be  excelled  as  a  liniment  for 
rheumatism.  (See  Chapter  on  "  Feet,  Arms  and 
Legs  "  for  other  remedies  for  rheumatism.) 

Obstinate  cases  of  chronic  rheumatism  will  often 
yield  to  Comp.  Tr.  Cimicifuga  made  as  follows: 

^     Tr.  Cimicifuga,  Oi. 

Juice  of  Phytolacca  berries,  Jii. 
Holland  Gin,  Oi. 
Tr.  Guiacum,  §i. 
Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  four  times  a  day. 


CHAPTER  XV 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES    FOR    FEVERS 
Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XV 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES    FOR   FEVERS 

THE  EXANTHEMATA.  In  the  United  States 
in  1890  there  were  27,658  deaths  from  typhoid 
fever,  in  1900  there  were  35,379  deaths  from  the 
same  disease.  The  old  treatment  of  calomel  and  opium 
was  abandoned  in  some  cases  for  the  expectant  (do 
nothing)  treatment.  In  these  latter  days  of  coal  tar 
products,  dye  stuffs,  etc.,  there  has  been  added  the 
wrapping  of  patients  in  sheets  wrung  out  of  ice  water. 
With  the  above  plan  of  treatment  in  the  Old  School 
(constantly  changing)  the  mortality  has  gradually  in- 
creased until  at  the  present  time  it  is  all  the  way  from 
twenty-five  per  cent,  to  forty  per  cent,  under  their 
methods  of  cure. 

The  treatment  of  the  Eclectic  Practice  of  Medicine 
in  typhoid  fever  has  never  produced  a  mortality  of  over 
three  per  cent.  Please  note  the  difference. 

In  my  own  experience  while  in  general  practice,  out 
of  two  hundred  cases  of  genuine  typhoid  fever  that  I 
treated  there  were  only  two  deaths. 

For  the  fever  in  the  first  stage  of  this  disease  ferri 
phos.  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  add  five  grains  of  the  third 
decimal  to  a  cup  of  warm  water  and  give  a  teaspoon- 
ful  every  half  hour.  For  the  gray  white  tongue,  loose- 
ness of  the  bowels,  pain  and  tenderness  of  the  abdomen 
kali  mur.,  third  decimal  is  the  indicated  drug.  Dose, 
place  five  grains  in  a  cup  of  water  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  Over  the  abdomen  I  apply  a 


334  Definite  Medication 

poultice  of  pulverized  flaxseed  and  slippery  elm  made 
light  and  wet  with  saleratus  water  (one  teaspoonful  of 
saleratus  to  a  pint  of  warm  water).  This  poultice 
should  be  changed  once  in  three  hours.  It  maintains 
an  even  temperature  over  the  bowels  and  helps  to  allay 
any  irritation  and  assists  nature  in  the  healing  process 
which  is  being  carried  on  in  the  bowels. 

Baptisia  is  my  sheet  anchor  in  this  disease,  when  the 
face  has  a  dark  red  besotted  appearance,  eyes  are  in- 
jected, there  is  stupor  and  delirium,  tongue  dry  and 
coated  brown,  breath  is  offensive,  sordes  on  the  teeth, 
the  body  seems  to  be  scattered  about  and  the  patient 
is  trying  to  put  the  pieces  together,  give  baptisia. 
Dose,  add  twenty  drops  tincture  baptisia  to  four  ounces 
of  water;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 
Echinacea  is  indicated  in  typhoid  fever  when  there  are 
flashes  of  heat,  chilliness  of  the  back,  patient  pro- 
foundly prostrated,  and  flushings  of  the  face.  Dose, 
add  thirty  drops  tincture  echinacea  to  four  ounces  of 
water ;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

Hydrochloric  acid  is  called  for  when  the  tongue  is 
dry,  shrunken  and  leathery,  stools  are  fetid  and  fre- 
quently involuntary  while  passing  urine,  patient  weak, 
slides  down  to  the  foot  of  the  bed.  In  such  cases  add 
twenty  drops  of  dilute  hydrochloric  acid  to  four  ounces 
of  water;  mix  and  give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful  once 
in  two  hours.  For  the  hemorrhage  from  the  bowels  I 
have  always  depended  upon  charcoal.  Dose,  five 
grains  in  capsules  once  in  three  hours.  For  the  de- 
lirium, when  the  face  is  pale  and  sunken,  tongue  dry, 
sensorium  so  cloudy  that  if  you  can  arouse  the  patient 
to  answer  a  question  he  immediately  relapses  into 
stupor  again,  this  unconscious  condition  may  con- 


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tinue  with  the  eyes  wide  open,  staring  around  the 
room,  he  seems  to  see  flocks  at  which  he  picks  the 
bed  clothes  muttering  to  himself,  the  teeth  are  covered 
with  sordes,  lower  jaw  drops,  stools  and  urine  pass 
involuntarily,  the  delirium  at  first  is  very  violent, 
but  is  not  kept  up  on  account  of  weakness,  stupid  mut- 
tering predominates,  hyoscyamus  should  be  prescribed. 
Dose,  add  twenty  drops  tincture  hyoscyamus  to  four 
ounces  of  water,  mix  and  give  the  patient  a  teaspoon- 
ful  every  hour.  In  some  cases  with  brown  tongue, 
patient  delirious,  great  prostration — patient  seems  to 
be  sinking,  I  give  kali  phos.  I  put  ten  grains  of  the 
third  decimal  into  a  cup  of  hot  water  and  give  the 
patient  a  teaspoonful  once  in  half  an  hour  until  the 
pulse  seemed  stronger  and  the  patient  more  rational. 

In  one  case  where  I  met  a  young  doctor  in  consulta- 
tion, I  learned  that  he  had  been  giving  tincture  chlo- 
ride of  iron,  teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours.  I  said 
to  him,  "Why  do  you  do  that?"  He  replied,  "Be- 
cause my  preceptor  always  gave  it  in  such  cases." 
The  patient  had  baptisia  written  all  over  his  face.  I 
told  him  that  he  had  better  drop  the  iron  and  give  the 
remedy  indicated,  baptisia.  He  followed  my  advice 
and  the  patient  recovered.  Many  patients  in  this  dis- 
ease have  been  made  subjects  for  the  undertaker  by 
cathartics  to  move  the  bowels,  and  coal  tar  products 
and  powerful  narcotics.  These  agents  all  lower  the 
vitality  of  the  patient  and  thus  lessen  his  chances  for  re- 
covery. Never  do  anything  that  will  weaken  your  pa- 
tient's vitality,  if  you  wish  them  to  get  well. 

Typhus  Fever.  As  an  antipyretic  remedy  baptisia 
heads  the  list.  Dose,  five  drops  tincture  baptisia  once 
in  two  hours.  For  the  mild  delirium  there  is  nothing 


236  Definite  Medication 

better  than  the  hyoscyamus.  Dose,  three  drops  tinc- 
ture hyoscyamus  once  in  two  hours.  For  the  pro- 
found stupor,  sordes  on  the  teeth,  chills  in  the  back, 
flushing  of  the  face,  foul  breath  and  fetid  discharges, 
you  should  prescribe  echinacea.  Dose,  ten  drops  tinc- 
ture echinacea  every  two  hours.  Great  cerebral  con- 
gestion with  throbbing  carotids,  flushed  face  and  wild 
furious  delirium  calls  for  belladonna.  Dose,  add  five 
drops  to  four  ounces  of  water,  mix  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  Hydrochloric  acid  will  fre- 
quently be  indicated.  (See  typhoid  fever.) 

Remittent  Fever,  Gelsemium  is  the  remedy  most  fre- 
quently indicated.  It  should  be  given  when  the  chills 
and  fever  are  severe  and  the  patient  feels  bruised, 
stupid  and  sluggish.  Dose,  add  ten  drops  tincture  gel- 
semium  to  four  ounces  of  water,  mix  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  The  red  tongue — tip  and  edges 
— demands  rhus  tox.  Dose,  ten  drops  tincture  rhus 
tox  and  four  ounces  of  water ;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoon- 
ful  once  an  hour.  As  an  antispasmodic  we  have  the 
arseniate  quinia.  Dose,  two  grains  of  the  third  deci- 
mal quinia  arseniate  should  be  given  every  three  hours. 

Bilious  Fever.  I  have  been  frequently  called  to  cases 
which  I  term  bilious  fever.  There  will  be  the  full 
bounding  pulse,  nausea — patients  often  complain  of  the 
heavy  feeling  in  the  stomach,  there  is  vomiting  of  a 
substance  which  is  very  bitter.  In  such  cases  I  pre- 
scribe the  following: 

1$     Tr.  Aconite,  gtts.  v. 

Tr.  Nux  Vomica,  gtts.  x. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 


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Place  a  mustard  paste  on  the  pit  of  the  stomach. 
This  is  all  the  treatment  needed  and  the  patient  will  be 
all  right  in  a  day  or  two. 

Scarlet  Fever.  In  the  simple  form  of  this  disease  I 
like  the  following: 

^     Tr.  Aconite  Rad.,  gtts.  v. 
Tr.  Belladonna,  gtts.  v. 
Aqua,  §vi. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Anoint  the  child  all  over  with  vaseline  three  times  a 
day  to  allay  the  irritation.  In  the  scarlatina  anginosa 
I  use,  as  a  gargle  for  the  throat,  this  recipe : 

Py     Pulv.  Chlorate  Potash,  5i. 
Sulphate  Zinc,  grs.  x. 

Mix.  Divide  into  two  powders.  Sig.  Dissolve  one 
powder  in  a  cup  of  warm  water  and  use  as  a  gargle 
every  hour.  For  the  fever  and  to  help  in  bringing  out 
the  eruption  ferri  phos.  is  very  useful.  Dose,  add  five 
grains,  third  decimal  ferri  phos.  to  four  ounces  of 
water,  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour. 
Kali  mur.,  third  decimal  should  be  given  for  the  sore 
throat.  Dose,  two  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  Apply 
a  poultice  of  pulverized  slippery  elm  round  the  neck 
over  the  throat.  Wet  it  with  warm  water.  This  poul- 
tice should  be  changed  every  two  hours. 

When  in  the  malignant  form  there  is  a  thin,  ichorous, 
burning  fluid  from  the  nose  that  excoriates  the  parts 
touched,  patient  is  delirious,  must  breathe  with  the 
mouth  open,  constantly  picking  at  the  nose,  you  should 
prescribe  arum  triphyllum.  Dose,  five  drops  tincture 


238  Definite  Medication 

aurum  added  to  four  ounces  of  water  and  a  teaspoon- 
ful  of  the  mixture  should  be  given  every  two  hours. 
Our  main  remedies  in  this  disease  and  those  I  like  the 
best  are  phytolacca  and  echinacea.  I  combine  them 
in  the  following  manner: 

I£     Tr.  Phytolacca,  gtts.  xxx. 
Tr.  Echinacea,  3ii. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  every  half  hour  in  urgent 
cases.  (The  above  is  for  a  child  five  years  old.) 
When  the  rash  is  miliary,  tonsils  dark  red  or  gangren- 
ous, neck  much  swollen,  fetor  intense,  mouth  filled  with 
sticky  saliva,  tongue  sore,  patient  lies  in  profound 
stupor,  breathing  is  stertorous,  you  should  give  the 
third  decimal  trituration  of  ammonia  carbonate.  Dose, 
three  grains  every  three  hours.  When  the  skin  has  a 
purplish  appearance,  eruption  has  a  dusky  carmine 
look,  pulse  small  and  very  rapid,  throat  edematous  and 
of  a  purple  and  livid  color,  high  fever,  delirium  and 
coma,  alianthus  glandulosa  is  the  indicated  remedy. 
Dose,  ten  drops  tincture  alianthus  added  to  four  ounces 
of  water;  mix,  give  teaspoonful  every  hour.  I  have 
seen  this  disease  in  its  worst  form.  If  properly  treated 
we  will  rarely  have  any  bad  after  effects,  as  dropsy, 
deafness,  etc. 

Measles.  For  many  years,  in  an  ordinary  case  of 
measles,  I  used  small  doses  of  aconite  for  the  fever  and 
to  hasten  the  eruption.  This  with  ipecac  for  the  cough 
seemed  all  that  was  necessary. 

Finally  my  little  daughter  was  taken  with  the  mea- 
sles. I  gave  her  the  usual  prescription. 


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^     Tr.  Aconite,  gtts.  v. 
Tr.  Ipecac,  gtts.  x. 
Aqua,  ^vi. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Her  fever  increased,  the  cough  grew  worse  and  there 
were  no  signs  of  the  eruption.  I  then  gave  her  the  fol- 
lowing prescription : 

^     Ferri  Phos.,  3x. 

Kali  mur.,  3x.  a.  a.  grs.  v. 
Aqua,  gvi. 

Mig.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  every  fifteen  minutes. 

I  watched  her  case  very  carefully  as  it  was  the  com- 
mencement of  my  using  the  bio-chemic  remedies.  I 
wanted  to  study  their  action.  In  an  hour  or  two  the 
fever  had  lessened  considerably,  the  skin  was  covered 
with  a  moist  perspiration,  the  cough  loose  and  less 
frequent  and  the  eruption  beginning  to  appear.  I  have 
never  during  my  medical  practice  seen  any  medicine 
work  so  nicely  and  quickly  as  that  prescription.  Since 
then  I  have  used  the  bio-chemic  remedies  in  my  prac- 
tice. They  have  helped  me  to  make  some  fine  cures. 
Since  treating  that  case  I  have  used  the  same  prescrip- 
tion in  many  attacks  of  uncomplicated  measles  and  al- 
ways with  excellent  results. 

When  the  eyes  are  much  affected  and  the  little  pa- 
tient complains  that  they  are  sore,  the  margins  of  the 
lids  are  swollen,  the  water  is  constantly  oozing  from 
them  and  is  of  an  acrid  character,  euphrasia  is  the  in- 
dicated remedy.  Dose,  twenty  drops  tincture  euphra- 
sia, third  decimal  dilution,  added  to  four  ounces  of 
water ;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  For 


240  Definite  Medication 

the  cough  and  bronchial  irritation  during  the  conva- 
lescence kali  mur.  third  decimal  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  When  the  face  is 
pale,  cold  and  hippocratic  and  there  is  a  retrocession 
of  the  eruption,  camphor  is  the  needed  remedy.  Dose, 
five  drops  in  a  little  hot  water  every  half  hour.  If 
there  is  a  high  fever  and  the  eruption  is  slow  in  making 
its  appearance  you  should  give  asclepias  tuberosa. 
Dose,  twenty  drops  tincture  asclepias  in  a  wine-glass 
of  hot  water  four  times  a  day. 

Smallpox.  In  the  winter  of  1869  and  1870,  while  I 
was  a  medical  student  attending  college  in  Philadel- 
phia, I  had  the  opportunity  of  witnessing  an  epidemic 
of  smallpox  in  that  city.  I  was  much  impressed  with 
the  difference  in  the  mortality  under  Old  School  treat- 
ment and  the  Eclectic  treatment.  While  the  Old 
School  physicians  lost  a  great  many  cases  the  Eclectic 
physicians  cured  about  every  case.  Even  under  Old 
School  treatment  thirty  years  later  in  the  smallpox 
hospital  at  London,  England,  the  mortality  was  thirty- 
seven  per  cent.  This  shows  how  much  progress  that 
school  of  medicine  has  made  within  the  past  thirty 
years. 

I  have  had  considerable  practice  among  the  French 
Canadians  of  northern  New  England  and  from  them  I 
learned  that  they  did  not  fear  the  smallpox  any  more 
than  we  do  the  measles.  They  depend,  for  its  treat- 
ment, on  warm  diaphoretic  teas,  keeping  the  patient 
well  covered  to  make  them  perspire  freely.  As  a  re- 
sult of  this  method  very  few  die  of  the  disease. 

From  my  own  observation  and  the  statements  of  re- 
liable medical  men  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  cream  tar- 
tar, if  taken  after  a  person  has  been  exposed  to  the 


Definite  Medication  241 

disease,  will  modify  the  action  of  the  virus  even  if  it 
does  not  prevent  an  attack.  A  tablespoonful  of  cream 
tartar  should  be  dissolved  in  a  bowl  of  hot  sweetened 
water.  Let  this  quantity  be  drank  during  the  day  in 
divided  doses.  It  is  also  good  to  break  up  the  "  boil 
habit." 

Vaccination  that  does  not  protect  the  victim  from 
smallpox,  but  has  killed  and  crippled  many  of  our 
children  and  increased  the  number  of  cases  of  cancer 
and  syphilis  in  every  country  where  it  is  enforced,  is  a 
disgrace  to  the  medical  profession  that  upholds  it. 
Vaccination  is  a  creation  of  the  old  school  of  medicine 
and  will  be  upheld  by  them  just  as  long  as  there  is 
money  to  be  obtained  by  vaccinating  the  people.  If  it 
is  a  prevention  then  one  vaccination  should  be  suffi- 
cient. If,  as  they  say,  the  disease  is  carried  in  a  per- 
son's clothing  then  certainly  the  clothing  should  be 
vaccinated  also. 

During  the  epidemic  of  smallpox  referred  to  above 
in  Philadelphia  the  Eclectics  depended  principally  upon 
the  following  prescription : 

IJ     Pulv.  Bayberry  Bark,  3ss. 
Pulv.  Ginger,  gi. 
Pulv.  Capsicum,  3i. 
Pulv.  Cimicifuga,  •>»• 

Mix.  Sig.  Put  in  one  quart  of  water  and  steep  for 
fifteen  minutes,  strain  and  sweeten.  Drink  a  wine- 
glass full  every  four  hours.  Bathe  the  surface  of  the 
body  in  lye  water  and  whiskey,  three  times  a  day. 
Give  a  powder  once  in  two  hours  composed  of  one-half 
grain  hydrastis  and  two  grains  of  quinine. 

Five  grains  of  the  third  decimal  ferri  phos.  added  to 


242  Definite  Medication 

a  cup  of  hot  water  and  given  in  teaspoonful  doses  every 
half  hour  will  control  the  fever  and  keep  the  skin  moist. 
The  best  local  application,  for  the  eruption,  is  to  sponge 
the  patient  all  over  with  warm  water  and  castile  soap. 
Then  apply  the  following: 

^     Fl.  Ext.  Hydrastis,  Ji. 
Glycerine,  §v. 

Mix.  Sig.  Apply  with  a  large  camel's  hair  brush 
after  the  sponge  bath.  This  should  be  done  three  times 
a  day  to  prevent  pitting. 

In  the  more  severe  cases  with  great  prostration, 
hemorrhages,  etc.,  baptisia  is  the  needed  remedy.  In 
seventy-two  cases  treated  with  baptisia  alone  none 
died.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  tincture  baptisia  to  four 
ounces  of  water ;  mix  and  give  teaspoonful  every  hour. 
It  should  never  be  omitted  in  smallpox. 

For  the  severe  headache,  delirium,  intolerance  to 
light,  belladonna  should  be  prescribed.  Dose,  five 
drops  tincture  belladonna  in  four  ounces  of  water ;  give 
teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  When  the  eruption  sud- 
denly sinks  in  and  the  pustules  dry  up  you  must  stim- 
ulate the  patient  with  camphor.  Dose,  five  drops  tinc- 
ture camphor  in  a  wine-glass  of  hot  water  every  half 
hour.  If  the  face  and  eyelids  swell  up  and  there  is 
redness  like  erysipelas  apis  mel  is  the  indicated  rem- 
edy. Dose,  add  ten  drops  tincture  apis  to  four  ounces 
of  water ;  mix  and  give  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

Chicken  Pox.  If  there  is,  in  this  disease,  extreme 
restlessness,  full  bounding  pulse,  aconite  is  the  rem- 
edy needed.  Dose,  five  drops  tincture  aconite  put  in 
four  ounces  of  water  and  a  teaspoonful  of  the  mixture 
is  given  every  hour.  For  the  soreness  of  the  mouth, 


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vesicles  on  the  tongue  and  to  dry  up  the  eruption  kali 
mur.  is  the  best  agent.  Dose,  place  five  grains  of  the 
third  decimal,  kali  mur.  in  four  ounces  of  water  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  half  an  hour.  For  the  itch- 
ing of  the  skin  apply  the  glycerole  of  hydrastis.  (See 
smallpox.)  As  an  antiperiodic  you  should  give  two 
grains  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  arseniate  quinia 
once  in  four  hours. 

Yellow  Fever.  In  the  very  beginning  of  an  attack,  or 
where  a  person  has  been  exposed  to  this  fever,  see  that 
a  "  lime  sweat  "  is  taken.  (See  hydrophobia.)  It  will 
modify  the  action  of  the  virus  and  render  the  attack 
more  mild.  For  remedies  we  have  aconite  and  bella- 
donna the  most  frequently  indicated  to  lower  the  tem- 
perature and  lessen  the  congestion.  They  may  be  used 
as  follows: 

^     Tr.  Aconite. 

Tr.  Belladonna,  a.  a.  gtts.  v. 
Aqua,  giv. 

Mix.     Sig.     Teaspoonful  once  an  hour. 

For  the  gastric  symptoms  ipecac  is  the  most  fre- 
quently indicated.  When  there  is  dizziness,  slight 
chills,  pain  in  the  back  and  limbs,  uneasy  feeling  at  the 
epigastrium,  nausea,  vomiting  and  faitness  you 
should  prescribe  ipecac.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  of 
the  third  decimal  dilution  tincture  ipecac  to  four  ounces 
of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  In  the 
cold  stage  camphor  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose, 
three  drops  in  a  teaspoonful  of  hot  water  every  ten 
minutes.  When  there  is  violent  vomiting  and  retch- 
ing, the  vomitus  is  dark  green,  slimy,  may  contain 
blood  (black  vomit),  liver  sore,  patient  cold,  cadmium 


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sulph.  is  the  remedy  that  should  be  prescribed.  Dose, 
two  grains,  third  decimal  cadmium  sulph.  every  two 
hours.  When  there  are  hemorrhages  and  the  disease 
is  malignant  crotalus  horridus  is  the  remedy.  Dose, 
three  grains,  sixth  decimal,  crotalus  horridus  once  in 
two  hours.  Our  homeopathic  friends  regard  this  rem- 
edy, "  without  a  peer  in  actual  clinical  work  in  yellow 
fever."  That  school  of  medicine  has  been  especially 
successful  in  this  disease.  In  1853  in  an  epidemic  of 
yellow  fever  in  Philadelphia,  we  learn  from  the  official 
reports  that  the  mortality  under  old  school  treatment 
was  eighty  per  cent.  In  Natchez,  Miss.,  in  1853  Drs. 
Holcomb  and  Davis,  homeopathic  physicians,  treated 
555  cases  of  yellow  fever  with  only  forty-three  deaths. 
Please  note  the  difference  in  the  results  of  treatment 
by  the  two  schools  of  medicine. 


CHAPTER  XVI 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  HEADACHE 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XVI 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  HEADACHE 

CONGESTIVE  HEADACHE.  When  there  is 
fullness,  heaviness  of  the  head,  throbbing  of  the 
carotids,  face  flushed,  booming  in  the  ears, 
sensitiveness  to  noise,  the  pulse  gives  an  impression  of 
fullness  and  tension,  veratrum  viride  is  the  indicated 
remedy  Dose,  five  drops,  first  decimal  dilution,  tinc- 
ture veratrum  every  hour,  while  the  headache  lasts, 
then  three  times  a  day.  Stout  plethoric  full-blooded 
girls  and  women  often  have  such  headaches ;  their 
menses  are  usually  scanty  and  frequently  suppressed. 

When  the  face  is  red,  conjunctiva  congested,  eyes 
staring,  pupils  dilated,  head  feels  confused,  bigger  than 
it  ought,  throbbing  of  carotids,  pain  worse  on  stoop- 
ing or  lying  down,  belladonna  is  the  remedy  to  be  pre- 
scribed. Dose,  add  five  drops  tincture  belladonna  to 
four  ounces  of  water ;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
half  hour. 

In  congestive  headaches,  where  the  face  is  intensely 
red  with  throbbing  carotids,  relieved  by  profuse  nose 
bleed,  meliotus  alba  must  be  given.  Dose,  put  ten  drops 
tincture  meliotus  into  four  ounces  of  water;  mix  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

When  the  throbbing  headache  seems  to  rise  from 
the  neck  and  the  throbbing  of  the  carotids  can  be  seen, 
the  blood  vessels  are  full  to  bursting,  head  feels  heavy 
but  cannot  be  laid  on  the  pillow,  face  deep  red,  sharp 
pains  accompany  the  throbbing.  This  kind  of  a  head- 


248  Definite  Medication 

ache  may  be  caused  by  delayed  menstruation  or  may  be 
the  warning  symptoms  of  puerperal  convulsions. 
Glonoin  second  decimal  dilution,  should  be  given  for 
this  headache.  Dose,  add  ten  drops  second  decimal 
dilution  to  four  ounces  of  water;  mix  and  give  tea- 
spoonful  doses  every  fifteen  minutes  until  relieved. 

When  the  headache  begins  at  the  cervical  region  and 
extends  over  the  head,  causes  a  sensation  of  bursting 
in  the  forehead  and  eyeballs,  patient  desires  to  lie  with 
his  head  high  on  the  pillow,  wishes  to  be  quiet  and  left 
alone, — this  headache  is  relieved  by  profuse  urination, 
gelsemium  is  the  drug  needed.  Dose,  add  thirty  drops 
of  the  third  decimal  dilution,  tincture  gelsemium  to 
four  ounces  of  water.  Mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
every  half  hour. 

When  there  is  great  restlessness,  bursting  headache, 
full  bounding  pulse,  brain  feels  as  if  it  were  boiling, 
worse  during  motion  and  after  sunstroke,  aconite  is  the 
remedy.  Dose,  add  five  drops  tincture  aconite  to  four 
ounces  of  water;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every 
hour. 

When  the  pain  extends  from  the  occiput  all  over  the 
head,  there  is  agonizing  distress,  face  pale,  extremities 
cold  and  livid — the  headaches  of  women  at  the  climac- 
teric and  in  drunkards — secale  cornutum  is  the  indi- 
cated remedy.  Dose,  five  drops  tincture  secale  every 
half  hour. 

Headache  with  congestion  of  blood  to  the  brain, 
flushed  face,  very  nervous,  cannot  sleep,  should  have 
caffeine  prescribed  for  it.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the 
first  decimal  every  hour. 

When  a  patient  has  had  a  sunstroke  and  suffers  from 
headache  every  time  he  goes  out  in  the  sun,  or  on  the 


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return  of  hot  weather,  or  when  any  mental  labor  causes 
headache  natrum  carb.  is  the  needed  remedy  for  relief. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  trituration, 
natrum  carb.  every  hour.  If  the  patient  is  subject  to 
headache  every  time  he  goes  out  into  the  sun  tincture 
usnea  barbata  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  add  five 
drops  to  a  glass  of  water;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
every  fifteen  minutes.  In  sunstroke  give  glonoin  as 
given  under  congestive  headache. 

Nervous  Headache.  Headache  that  is  caused  by  over- 
exertion,  shopping,  pain  worse  on  the  left  side  pressing 
the  temple,  constant  desire  to  expectorate,  saliva  is  of 
a  viscid  character,  pain  relieved  by  rest,  lying  down, 
epiphegus  is  the  drug  required.  Dose,  five  drops  of 
the  second  decimal  dilution,  tincture  epiphegus  every 
fifteen  minutes  until  relieved. 

Brain  Fag.  The  headache  of  students  and  business 
men,  which  is  brought  on  by  the  slightest  mental  emo- 
tion or  exertion,  pain  at  the  back  of  the  head  and  is  apt 
to  extend  down  the  spine,  patient  feels  tired  and  heavy, 
feels  better  if  the  head  is  bandaged  tightly,  needs  picric 
acid.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  picric 
acid  every  hour.  When  the  head  feels  as  if  a  nail  were 
driven  out  through  the  side,  and  is  relieved  by  lying  on 
it,  the  attack  terminates  in  vomiting  and  passage  of 
a  large  quantity  of  urine,  and  in  nervous  hysterical 
patients  given  to  sighing  and  weeping,  ignatia  is  the 
remedy  to  be  prescribed.  Dose,  add  ten  drops  tincture 
ignatia  to  four  ounces  of  water,  mix  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour  Headache  from  severe  mental 
exertion,  brain  fag,  patient  feels  despondent,  looks  on 
the  dark  side  of  everything,  has  an  empty,  gone  feeling 
in  the  stomach,  needs  kali  phos.  Dose,  three  tablets 


250  Definite  Medication 

of  the  third  decimal  trituration  every  two  hours. 
Headache  with  crushing  weight  on  vertex,  in  the  oc- 
ciput and  nape  of  the  neck,  made  worse  by  motion,  re- 
lieved by  lying  down,  the  legs  tremble  and  are  weak, 
patients  often  become  indifferent  to  the  affairs  of  life, 
demands  phosphoric  acid  dilution.  Dose,  add  fifteen 
drops  to  a  glass  of  water;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful 
every  two  hours.  Morning  headaches  which  begin  on 
waking  and  last  until  noon,  headaches  from  fatigue, 
involuntary  twitching  of  the  eyelids  should  be  given 
the  second  decimal  of  codiine.  Dose,  three  tablets 
every  hour.  Headaches  that  begin  in  the  base  of  the 
brain  in  the  morning  and  spread  over  the  head  locating 
in  the  eye,  orbit  and  temple  of  the  left  side  call  for 
the  third  decimal  dilution  of  spigelia.  Dose,  add  fif- 
teen drops  to  a  glass  of  water;  mix  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  half  hour.  Pain  in  the  forehead  over 
the  right  eye,  which  is  very  sensitive  to  the  touch,  he 
cannot  open  his  eyes  during  the  paroxysm,  pain  is 
throbbing,  worse  from  looking  at  bright  lights,  relieved 
by  sleep,  should  be  given  coccinella  sept.  Dose,  place 
fifteen  drops  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  tincture  coc- 
cinella in  four  ounces  of  water;  mix  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  every  hour.  Many  cases  of  nervous  head- 
aches call  for  belladonna.  (See  the  indications  under 
congestive  headaches.) 

Headache  from  Eye  Strain.  When  the  eyes  feel  weary 
and  ache  as  if  strained,  or  they  burn  like  balls  of  fire  as 
the  result  of  too  close  application  to  fine  sewing  or 
study,  ruta  grav.  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  add 
ten  drops  tincture  ruta  to  four  ounces  of  water;  mix 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  When  there 
is  headache  from  eye  strain  with  a  feeling  of  stiffness 


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and  bruised  sensation  of  the  muscles  of  the  forehead 
cimicifuga  is  the  drug  which  should  be  used.  Dose, 
five  drops  of  the  first  decimal  dilution  every  two  hours. 
In  megrim  when  there  is  a  dull,  heavy,  pressing  pain 
starting  in  the  occiput  and  extending  to  the  frontal 
region,  worse  in  the  morning,  mostly  on  the  left  side, 
headache  caused  by  over  strain,  onosmodium  should  be 
prescribed.  Dose,  add  ten  drops  of  the  third  decimal 
dilution  to  four  ounces  of  water;  mix  and  give  a  tea- 
spoonful  once  an  hour. 

Sick  Headache.  When  the  pain  is  in  the  forehead 
over  the  eyes,  eyeballs  painful,  vomiting  bitter,  green- 
looking  matter,  pain  in  the  liver  and  cramp-like  pains 
in  the  abdomen  will  need  chionanthus  as  the  remedial 
agent.  Dose,  five  drops  of  the  second  decimal  dilution, 
tincture  chionanthus  every  three  hours.  This  remedy 
has  helped  to  cure  several  cases  of  sick  headache.  I 
gave  the  chionanthus  to  a  druggist  in  Ohio  for  sick 
headache,  who  had  tried  everything  he  could  hear  of, 
and  it  cured  him.  Before  an  attack,  when  the  patient 
feels  it  coming  on,  put  two  teaspoonfuls  of  powdered 
charcoal  in  half  a  glass  of  water,  and  drink  it  all  at 
once.  This  will  frequently  prevent  the  attack.  One 
or  two  teaspoonfuls  of  cascara  cordial  taken  in  the 
morning  will  avert  its  appearance  many  times.  When 
the  pain  begins  in  the  back  of  the  head,  spreads  over 
the  head  and  is  most  severe  in  the  forenoon,  pain  is  so 
intense  that  the  patient  cries  out  in  anguish,  it  shifts 
from  side  to  side  niccolum  is  the  indicated  remedy. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  every  hour. 
Epiphegus  is  sometimes  indicated  in  such  headaches. 
(See  indication  for  it  under  nervous  headaches.) 

Periodical  Headaches.     Headaches  coming  on  at  a  cer- 


252  Definite  Medication 

tain  time  each  day,  often  complicated  with  malaria  calls 
for  quinine.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal 
once  in  two  hours.  Headaches  where  the  head  feels  as 
if  it  would  split  open,  worse  by  stooping  over,  cough- 
ing ironing  or  moving  the  eyes,  nausea  and  faintness 
when  trying  to  sit  up  requires  bryonia  and  is  generally 
met  in  hot  weather.  Dose,  add  five  drops  tincture 
bryonia  to  four  ounces  of  water;  mix,  teaspoonful 
every  hour.  When  the  headache  appears  after  the 
menstrual  period  (whether  scanty  or  profuse  menses) 
pain  comes  on  in  paroxysms,  intense,  throbbing,  head- 
ache, apt  to  occur  mostly  in  the  anemic  persons,  na- 
trum  muriaticum.  Dose,  three  tablets,  of  the  sixth 
decimal,  every  two  hours. 

Curing  headaches  is  one  of  the  weak  points  with  the 
average  doctor.  The  women  with  the  headache  "  we 
have  always  with  us,  and  when  we  will  we  can  do 
them  good."  Instead  of  leaving  them  to  experiment 
with  coal  tar  "  headache  cures  "  study  each  case  care- 
fully and  adapt  your  remedies  to  it.  The  results  ob- 
tained will  win  the  gratitude  of  the  sufferers  and  put 
many  a  dollar  in  your  pocket. 


CHAPTER  XVII 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES   FOR  DIARRHEA,   VOMITING   AND   IM- 
POTENCE 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XVII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  DIARRHEA,  VOMITING  AND  IMPOTENCE 

FOR  the  past  eighty  years  the  Eclectics  have  used 
Syr.  Rhei  et  Potassa  (Neutralizing  Cordial)  as  a 
good  all  round  remedy  for  diarrhea.  Dose,  for 
adults  one  teaspoonful  once  an  hour;  children  in  pro- 
portional doses.  It  is  one  of  the  remedies  that  helped 
to  give  the  fathers  of  the  Eclectic  School  their  splendid 
reputation  in  the  treatment  of  cholera  in  1832  and 
1849.  Under  allopathic  treatment  the  mortality  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1849  was  fifty  per  cent.  Of  1,094 
cases  of  cholera  treated  by  Eclectic  physicians  there 
were  only  thirty-six  deaths,  less  than  four  per  cent. 
(3.28).  The  Western  Lancet  (regular)  for  July,  1849, 
while  the  cholera  was  still  raging,  speaking  in  behalf 
of  the  allopathic  physicians,  observes  "  that  of  the  cases 
of  true  cholera,  with  rice  water  discharges,  at  least 
one-half  of  the  cases  in  this  city,  as  everywhere  else,  proved 
fatal."  The  above  record  is  a  startling  contrast  be- 
tween the  treatment  of  the  Eclectics  and  regular  phy- 
sicians in  this  disease. 

In  bilious  diarrhea,  a  teaspoonful  of  the  Comp.  Syr. 
Rhei  et  Potash  once  in  three  hours  will  usually  be  suf- 
rficient.     For  mucous  diarrhea  I  like  the  following  pre- 
scription : 

^     Podophyllin,  grs.  ii. 

Sacch.  Lactis,  grs.  xviii. 

Mix.     Make    twenty    powders.     Sig.     One    powder 
night  and  morning. 


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When  there  are  copious  watery  discharges  we  may 
use  this  prescription : 

^     Tr.  Camphor. 
Tr.  Capsicum. 
Tr.  Ginger. 
Tr.  Rhubarb. 
Tr.  Opium,  a.  a.  3ii. 
Brandy,  q.  s.  §ii. 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  in  a  little  hot  sweetened 
water  every  half  hour  until  relieved.  When  the  diar- 
rhea is  painless,  non-debilitating,  preceded  by  flatu- 
lence in  the  abdomen,  discharges  are  watery,  white  or 
yellow,  may  be  involuntary,  phosphoric  acid  is  the 
remedy  needed.  Dose,  put  fifteen  drops  of  the  third 
decimal  dilution  in  half  a  glass  of  water ;  mix  and  give 
patient  a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  In  the  alter- 
nate diarrhea  and  constipation  of  old  people,  with  ex- 
cessive flatulence,  stools  white  and  lumpy,  antimonium 
crudum  should  be  prescribed.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  third  decimal  every  three  hours.  In  diarrhea  with 
severe  agonizing,  twisting  pain,  causing  the  patient  to 
bend  double  and  press  firmly  on  the  abdomen,  colo- 
cynth  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  put  five  drops 
tincture  colocynth  in  a  half  glass  of  water  and  give  the 
patient  a  teaspoonful  every  hour.  When  there  is  pro- 
fuse diarrhea  with  vomiting  of  watery  material  with 
sharp,  cutting,  colicky  pains,  and  offensive  greenish 
stools,  cuprum  arsenicum  is  the  remedy  to  be  used. 
Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  every  hour. 
In  the  diarrhea  of  children  during  the  summer  months 
I  have  used  the  following  prescription  with  good  suc- 
cess: 


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1$     Magnesia  Carb.,  grs.  x. 
Essence  Anise,  gtts.  x. 
Syr.  Ginger. 
Syr.  Rhei,  a.  a.  §i. 

Mix.  Sig.  From  ten  to  twenty  drops  (according  to 
age)  once  an  hour.  I  have  used  this  prescription  since 
I  first  began  to  practice  medicine  with  great  success. 
In  one  case  of  a  child  that  had  been  given  up  to  die  in 
one  of  the  hospitals  in  New  York  City  this  remedy 
saved  its  life.  Many  of  my  families,  when  I  was  in 
general  practice,  kept  it  in  the  house  all  the  time  to 
give  their  babies. 

When  there  seems  to  be  a  sense  of  weakness  in  the 
splincter  ani  and  the  rectum,  stool  passes  involuntarily, 
rectum  feels  full  of  heavy  fluid,  patient  must  get  to  the 
closet  at  once,  jelly-like  mucus  passes  in  great  masses 
— large  solid  chunks,  aloes  is  the  remedy  that  should  be 
given.  Dose,  three  drops  tincture  aloes  every  two 
hours.  When  there  is  tenesmus  and  a  "  never  get 
done  "  feeling,  stools  watery,  profuse,  slimy,  contain 
traces  of  blood,  tincture  henchera  americana  is  the  rem- 
edy. Dose,  five  drops  once  in  two  hours.  (See  chronic 
diarrhea  in  Diseases  of  Stomach  and  Intestinal  Canal.) 

Vomiting.  In  any  sickness  accompanied  with  per- 
sistent nausea,  patient  not  relieved  by  vomiting,  just  as 
sick  after  vomiting  as  before,  you  should  always  think 
of  ipecac.  Dose,  put  two  drops  tincture  ipecac  in  a 
half  glass  of  water  and  give  one  teaspoonful  every 
hour.  When  large  quantities  of  fluid  are  vomited, 
with  intense  thirst — the  water  is  thrown  off  the  stom- 
ach as  soon  as  it  is  swallowed,  although  solid  food  is 
retained  for  some  time — do  not  forget  bismuth.  Dose, 


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three  tablets  of  the  second  decimal  every  hour.  When 
the  vomiting  is  violent  and  forcible,  consists  of  food, 
mucus,  bile  and  blood,  cold  sweat  on  the  forehead,  with 
burning  internally,  veratrum  album  is  indicated.  Dose, 
add  five  drops  tincture  veratrum  album  to  half  a  glass 
of  water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  of  water  every  hour. 

In  small  children,  during  the  second  summer,  there 
may  be  gastric  irritability  of  which  vomiting  is  the 
marked  feature.  In  such  cases  amygdalis  persica  is 
the  necessary  drug  to  obtain  a  cure.  The  tincture  used 
should  be  made  from  the  fresh  bark  of  the  young 
twigs.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops  tincture  amygdalis  to 
half  a  glass  of  water ;  mix,  give  teaspoonful  every  half 
hour.  Five  drops  tincture  amygdalis  once  in  two 
hours  has  cured  many  cases  of  "  morning  sickness  "  in 
pregnant  women. 

A  painful  feeling  of  emptiness,  an  "  all  gone  "  feeling 
in  the  stomach,  faintness  in  the  stomach  will  be  cured 
by  the  use  of  the  fourth  decimal  trituration  of  sepia. 
Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  three  hours.  If  vomiting 
of  pregnancy  is  present  with  these  symptoms  do  not 
forget  the  sepia  as  described  above.  Nausea  and  faint- 
ness  caused  by  the  smell  of  food  cooking  with  vomit- 
ing of  blood  and  bloody  stools  call  for  the  third  deci- 
mal dilution  of  colchicum.  Dose,  five  drops  once  in 
two  hours. 

In  cases  of  nausea  and  vomiting  I  apply  a  mustard 
paste  over  the  pit  of  the  stomach  and  take  it  off  as 
soon  as  it  reddens  the  skin.  Such  patients  find  that 
clam  broth  agrees  with  the  stomach  the  best  of  any- 
thing and  helps  also  to  settle  the  stomach. 

Impotency.  The  impotent  man,  the  man  with  "  lost 
manhood  "  and  nervous  debility  has  proved  a  gold 


Definite  Medication  259 

mine  to  a  certain  class  of  physicians.    From  my  book 
of  experience,  I  will  try  to  tell  the  reader  how  cases 
like  the  above  can  be  treated  rationally  and  success- 
fully.    Had  the  regular  school  of  doctors  been  able  to 
treat  such  cases  successfully    themselves,  we    would 
never  have  had  such  things  as  "  Doctors  for  Weak 
Men,"  etc.,  etc.,  filling  the  papers  with  their  "  ADS." 
When  we  have  nervous  irritable  patients,  who  imagine 
they  are  not  competent  to  perform  the  duties  of  a  hus- 
band, have  lost  confidence  in  themselves,  have  the  dis- 
charge, too  soon,  more  or  less  leaking  of  semen  at 
stool  and  with  the  least  sexual  excitement,  they  are 
frequently  called  impotent — and  they  think  they  are — 
when  they  are  only  neurasthenic.    We  have  two  reme- 
dies which  just  meet  the  indications    in    such    cases. 
First,  prescribe  Fl.  Ext.  avena  sativa  (Parke  Davis  & 
Co.)  twenty  drops  after  each  meal  and  at  bedtime  in  a 
little  water.    The  above  remedy  strengthens  the  nerves 
while  it  calms  them  at  the  same  time.    To  give  these 
patients,  strychnia,  cantharides  or  phosphorus  would 
excite  the  nerves  and  do  them  harm.    Second,  in  con- 
nection with  the  avena  give  them  the  third  decimal 
trituration  of  kali  phos.     Dose,  three    tablets    every 
three  hours.     Kali  phos.  is  a  "  nerve  food  "  and  the 
best  in  any  materia  medica.     Now  suppose  we  have 
impotence  in  men  who  have  "  gone  the  pace,"  men  on 
the  down  hill  grade,  who  find  there  are  times  when 
they  "  can't  make  good  "  and  are  clamoring  for  help, 
what  shall  we  do  to  help  them  ?    Such  patients  should 
be  given  granules  of  %34  grain  arseniate  strychnine, 
two  every  three  hours,  in  alternation  with  phosphoric 
acid  dilution  five  drops  once  in  three  hours.     Teachers, 
students  and  professional  men  who,  through  too  much 


260  Definite  Medication 

study  have  become  impotent,  should  be  given  picric 
acid,  especially  when  there  is  prostration  from  any  at- 
tempt to  use  the  mind,  and  there  is  pain  in  the  fore- 
head and  back  of  the  neck,  the  patient  feels  tired  and 
heavy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  before 
each  meal.  These  patients  should  also  be  given  three 
tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  of  lycopodium  after  each 
meal.  The  above  is  an  ideal  treatment  for  such  cases. 

In  women  who  have  become  sterile  through  too 
hard  work,  too  frequent  childbearing  and  a  general 
breaking  down  of  the  whole  system  we  should  pre- 
scribe the  Fl.  Ext.  saw  palmetto.  Dose,  twenty  drops 
after  each  meal  and  at  bedtime  in  a  little  sweetened 
water.  It  will  put  new  life  and  vigor  into  them  and 
generally  restore  the  sexual  passion.  In  persons  pre- 
maturely old,  those  who  have  suffered  from  sexual 
abuse,  genital  organs,  cold,  relaxed  and  flabby,  loss 
of  memory,  patients  sad  and  fear  approaching  death, 
you  should  prescribe  tincture  agnus  castus.  Dose,  five 
drops  once  in  three  hours.  When  any  kind  of  labor 
exhausts  the  patient,  erections  are  too  slow,  too  weak 
and  he  has  the  discharge  too  quick  in  coition,  he  is 
cross  and  weak  afterwards,  prostatic  fluid  oozes  while 
sitting,  walking,  or  when  he  is  asleep  or  at  stool,  he  is 
emaciated,  especially  in  face,  hands  and  thighs,  you 
must  give  the  sixth  decimal  of  selenium.  Dose,  five 
tablets  night  and  morning. 

Tea  drinking  weakens  the  nerves  and  causes  an  es- 
cape of  the  semen.  It  must  be  abstained  from  or  you 
cannot  cure  your  patient.  Coffee  and  tobacco  had  also 
better  be  cut  out  of  the  diet  if  your  patients  are  anxious 
to  get  well. 


CHAPTER  XVIII 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  DIPSOMNIA 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication  263 


CHAPTER  XVIII 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES   FOR  DIPSOMANIA 

THERE  are  many  victims  of  the  "  Drink  Habit " 
who  can  often  be  helped  by  proper  medical  treat- 
ment. Frequently  a  physician  is  called  upon  to 
prescribe  for  a  man  who  has  been  on  a  "  spree  "  and 
wants  to  get  sobered  up  and  be  a  man  once  more. 
Others  want  help  to  get  rid  of  the  habit.  A  physician 
can  be  of  great  assistance  in  such  cases  with  the  indi- 
cated remedy. 

The  first  thing  to  do  is  to  get  your  patient  "  sobered 
up  " ;  get  the  liquor  out  of  him  and  clear  out  the  brain. 
Fortunately  we  have  a  remedy  that  can  be  depended 
upon  to  meet  just  such  cases.  It  is  a  decoction  of 
apocynum  canabium,  prepared  by  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of 
Philadelphia.  Give  your  patient  a  teaspoonful  of  this 
preparation  in  a  glass  of  water;  have  him  drink  it  all. 
Then  put  three  teaspoonfuls  of  the  decoction  into  a 
glass  of  water  and  direct  that  two  teaspoonfuls  of  this 
mixture  shall  be  taken  every  half  hour.  This  treat- 
ment may  be  kept  for  six  to  twelve  hours,  cutting 
down  the  allowance  of  liquor.  It  will  sober  a  drunk 
the  quickest  of  any  known  remedy. 

Under  some  kinds  of  treatment  it  takes  weeks  and 
months  to  get  over  a  spree,  but  with  the  use  of  this 
remedy  they  are  brought  round  in  a  few  days.  It 
stops  the  craving  for  the  regular  drink.  To  follow  up 
the  treatment  give  one  teaspoonful  of  the  decoction  in 
a  glass  of  water  three  or  four  times  a  day  until  no  de- 


264  Definite  Medication 

sire  for  liquor  remains.  The  continued  use  of  liquor, 
especially  whiskey,  weakens  the  stomach  and  creates 
the  "  morning  vomiting "  of  drunkards.  The  nerve 
power  of  these  victims  of  liquor  is  low ;  the  vitality  is 
weak.  They  are  simply  wrecks  cast  upon  the  shores 
of  time.  The  hypophosphite  strychnine,  Vis*  grain, 
given  in  doses  of  two  granules  every  three  hours,  will 
help  the  vomiting  and  strengthen  the  nerves. 

Many  a  man  may  be  saved  if  when  he  feels  the 
"  restlessness  and  longing  "  for  a  drink  to  brace  him 
up,  you  could  give  him  a  hypodermic  injection  of  ni- 
trate strychnine  one-thirtieth  grain  once  or  twice  a 
day.  It  helps  to  tide  him  over,  calms  and  strengthens 
his  nerves  and  saves  him  from  going  on  a  spree. 
These  men  should  have  our  sympathy ;  if  any  persons 
on  earth  need  our  help  as  physicians  it  is  these  same 
victims  of  alcohol. 


CHAPTER  XIX 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  THE  PREGNANT  WOMAN 
Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XIX 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  THE  PREGNANT  WOMAN 

IN  one  of  our  Medical  Journals  I  read  that  a  doctor 
should  have  thirty-three  instruments  and  fourteen 
remedies  in  his  trunk ;  then  he  is  prepared  to  attend 
an  obstetric  case.  In  the  four  thousand  hours  of  in- 
struction given  to  medical  students  in  Philadelphia 
during  the  winter,  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  time  is  devoted 
to  surgery.  Thus  it  would  seem  that  the  colleges 
deem  it  much  more  important  to  know  how  to  "  cut 
up  "  a  patient  than  to  know  how  to  cure  them.  How 
much  time  is  given  to  teaching  students  how  to  pre- 
pare a  pregnant  woman  for  her  "  hour  of  trial  "?  None 
at  all.  To-day  great  stress  is  laid  upon  the  "  opera- 
tive "  treatment  of  midwifery.  As  a  result  of  such 
teaching  the  average  doctor  goes  to  an  obstetrical  case 
with  visions  of  turning,  abnormal  presentations,  con- 
vulsions, flooding,  instrumental  delivery,  etc.  He  ex- 
pects trouble  and  he  generally  gets  it.  One  thing  he 
always  seems  to  forget  is  that  child  birth  is  a  natural 
process  of  Nature,  and  that  meddlesome  midwifery  is 
bad  and  in  most  cases  entirely  uncalled  for.  That  in 
nine  cases  out  of  ten  Nature  will  do  the  work  if  we  let 
her  alone  and  don't  "  butt  in."  The  young  doctor  is 
impatient ;  he  is  in  a  hurry,  he  likes  to  make  a  "  play 
to  the  grand  stand  "  by  the  use  of  instruments,  and  col- 
lect an  additional  fee  for  applying  the  forceps.  He 
tells  the  husband  all  kinds  of  ghost  stories  of  what  will 
happen  to  the  woman  if  he  does  not  deliver  her  with 


268  Definite  Medication 

instruments.  He  is  prone  to  inject  some  kind  of 
"  dope  "  into  her  or  apply  chloroform  to  kill  the  pain. 
This  kind  of  treatment  makes  business  for  him  later. 
If  the  pains  are  not  strong  enough  to  suit  him  he  gives 
ergot.  That  remedy  causes  powerful  contractions  of 
the  uterus  and  has  killed  thousands  of  babies  in  this 
world.  The  use  of  instruments  to  deliver  a  woman 
at  confinement  is  the  cause  of  60,000  women  in  the 
United  States  being  affected  with  cancer  of  the  uterus. 
The  use  of  chloroform  or  some  kind  of  dope  to  kill  pain 
makes  invalids  and  business  for  the  gynecologists.  In 
my  student  days  I  attended  lectures  on  obstetrics  un- 
der four  different  teachers  of  that  branch  of  medical 
study.  Two  of  them  were  practical  men  and  their 
teaching  was  along  practical  lines.  They  had  the 
largest  obstetrical  practice  in  their  respective  cities  and 
in  their  thirty  years'  practice  had  never  used  the  for- 
ceps to  deliver  a  woman  at  confinement.  In  my  own 
practice  of  forty  years  I  have  never  used  the  forceps  or 
had  a  pair  in  my  possession.  During  that  time  I  have 
attended  three  hundred  cases  of  confinement  and  have 
never  lost  a  woman  during  or  after  her  confinement. 
I  have  never  had  a  case  of  laceration  of  the  perineum 
or  puerperal  convulsions  in  my  own  practice  although  I 
have  seen  them  in  the  practice  of  other  physicians. 
Why  did  I  not  meet  with  such  cases  in  my  practice? 
Because  I  always  put  the  woman  under  the  proper 
course  of  preparatory  treatment,  before  the  expected 
labor. 

The  Indian  women  never  have  a  doctor  in  confine- 
ment. They  know  how  to  treat  themselves.  They 
drink  squaw  wine — partridge  berry  tea  before  the  con- 
finment  and  thus  have  a  quiet  and  easy  labor.  The 


Definite  Medication  269 

Eclectics  have  used  the  mitchella  repens  (partridge 
berry)  for  the  past  seventy-five  years  as  a  preparatory 
treatment  for  child  birth  and  it  has  given  them  splen- 
did success  in  obstetrics.  When  I  have  a  case  of  con- 
finement to  attend,  I  always  give  the  woman,  about 
two  months  before  the  expected  time,  the  following 
remedy : 

I£     Spec.  Med.  Mitchella,  §iv. 
Fl.  Ext.  Cimicifuga,  3iv. 
Syr.  Sarsaparilla,  q.  s.  gviii. 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  after  each  meal  and  at  bed- 
time. 

When  this  remedy  is  used  beforehand  as  directed,  I 
have  had  no  postpartum  hemorrhage  or  convulsions. 
The  labor  is  generally  quick  and  easier  than  it  would 
be  without  this  preparatory  medicine.  If  albumen  ap- 
pears in  the  urine  previous  to  full  term  you  should  give 
Fl.  Ext.  Eupatorium  purpurium.  Dose,  fifteen  drops 
three  times  a  day.  This  will  speedily  clear  it  up.  I 
would  urge  upon  my  brother  physicians  to  lay  aside 
their  prejudice  and  give  these  remedies  a  fair  trial  in 
their  cases  of  expectant  labor.  If  they  will  it  will 
prove  a  Godsend  to  thousands  of  expectant  mothers. 
If  there  are  symptoms  of  abortion — pain  and  flowing — 
give  half  a  teaspoonful  of  Hayden's  Viburnum  Com- 
pound once  in  two  hours  in  a  little  cold  water.  In 
theratened  placenta  previa  this  remedy  has  helped  me 
delay  the  accident.  In  a  case  of  false  conception 
where  it  seemed  as  if  the  woman  would  flow  to  death 
Hayden's  Viburnum  Comp.  gradually  checked  the 
flooding. 

Some    women   have    a    weak    heart    in    pregnancy. 


270  Definite  Medication 

These  should  be  given  three  drops  tincture  digitalis 
three  times  a  day  to  strengthen  the  heart's  action. 
Many  cases  of  sudden  deaths  during  child  birth  could 
have  been  avoided  if  the  heart  had  been  stronger  and 
no  powerful  arterial  sedative  had  been  given  to  weaken 
its  action. 

Pregnant  women  are  frequently  troubled  with  con- 
stipation. Cascara  cordial  will  prove  very  beneficial  in 
such  cases.  Dose,  one  to  two  teaspoonfuls  at  bedtime. 
For  hemorrhoids  you  should  give  tincture  aesculus 
(horse  chestnut)  five  drops  night  and  morning.  Ap- 
ply black  molasses  to  the  little  tumors,  push  them  back 
into  the  rectum  and  apply  a  small  pledget  of  absorbent 
cotton  against  the  anus  to  keep  the  molasses  from  soil- 
ing the  clothes.  If  this  is  done  a  few  times  after  each 
movement  of  the  bowels  it  will  cure  the  hemorrhoids. 
Pregnant  women  will  often  crave  chalk  and  suffer 
from  the  toothache.  It  is  the  demand  of  the  system 
for  lime.  Let  her  nibble  a  piece  of  chalk  several  times 
a  day,  or  give  her  five  grains  phosphate  lime  three 
times  a  day.  It  is  the  best  way  to  cure  the  toothache 
in  a  pregnant  woman  and  when  the  child  is  born  there 
will  be  more  probability  of  a  healthy  child,  and  you 
will  have  less  trouble  during  dentition.  To  harden  the 
nipples  the  yolk  of  an  egg  and  glycerine,  equal  parts, 
is  a  good  remedy.  Apply  once  or  twice  a  day,  a  month 
before  the  expected  confinement.  The  "  morning  sick- 
ness "  is  a  great  cause  of  distress  to  the  pregnant 
woman.  Inserting  the  index  finger  three  quarters  of  an 
inch  inside  the  neck  of  the  uterus  to  dilate  the  external 
os  has  cured  many  cases.  In  my  practice  oxalate  cer- 
ium five  grains  three  times  a  day  has  proved  effectual, 
or  ten  grains  of  ingluvin  after  each  spell  of  vomiting. 


Definite  Medication  271 

Plethoric  women  are  often  troubled  with  nervousness, 
are  "figity,"  have  horrible  dreams,  are  frequently  wake- 
ful, in  such  instances  bromide  soda  is  the  needed  rem- 
edy. Dose,  five  to  ten  grains  once  in  six  hours.  In  cere- 
bral congestion,  flushed  face,  cold  hands  and  feet,  throb- 
bing carotids,  veratrum  viride  is  the  needed  remedy. 
Dose,  five  drops  of  the  first  decimal  tincture  veratrum, 
once  an  hour  for  three  hours,  afterwards  once  in  three 
hours.  For  the  hysteria  and  hysterical  spasms  some- 
times present  you  should  give  bromide  camphor. 
Dose,  five  grains  first  decimal,  every  fifteen  minutes 
until  relieved.  Sometimes  there  will  be  trouble  with 
the  bladder  and  your  pregnant  woman  complain  of  be- 
ing obliged  to  urinate  very  often.  In  such  instances 
tincture  staphisagria  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose, 
five  drops  of  the  sixth  decimal  every  two  hours. 
Cramps  in  the  calves  of  the  legs  during  the  latter 
months  of  pregnancy  can  be  helped  by  five  drop  doses 
of  tincture  viburnum  opulus,  once  an  hour.  For  pain 
and  soreness  of  the  abdomen  in  the  last  month  I  like 
bathing  the  part  with  one  ounce  warm  sweet  oil  to 
which  has  been  added  one  fluid  drachm  tincture  arnica. 
The  abdomen  should  be  bathed  each  night  during  the 
last  month  of  pregnancy.  Some  women  are  very  cross 
when  pregnant,  nothing  pleases  them.  For  such  cases 
we  have  our  chamomilla.  Dose,  add  twenty  drops 
tincture  chamomilla  to  a  glass  of  water ;  mix  and  give 
a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours.  Pain  under  the  left 
breast  is  often  met  with  in  pregnant  women.  Give 
these  cases  two  grains  first  decimal  macrotin  once  in 
three  hours.  If  the  urine  is  scanty,  sometimes  dark, 
at  other  times  profuse  and  watery  with  edema  of  the 
face  and  feet,  digitalis  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  two 


272  Definite  Medication 

grains  second  decimal  digitalin  once  in  three  hours.  If 
there  is  anemia  ferrum  first  decimal  should  be  given. 
Dose,  three  tablets  after  each  meal.  The  adminstra- 
tion  of  this  remedy  will  often  prevent  hemorrhage  after 
labor  in  women  who  are  predisposed  to  it.  If  a  woman 
in  the  last  stages  of  pregnancy  becomes  enfeebled, 
pale,  anemic,  dyspeptic,  urine  excessive  or  deficient  in 
quantity — sometimes  albuminous,  great  depression  of 
spirits,  helonias  is  the  remedy,  especially  when  simu- 
lating Bright's  disease.  Dose,  three  tablets  of  second 
decimal  helonias  once  in  two  hours.  The  "  mitchella 
comp."  as  mentioned  in  the  early  part  of  this  chapter 
to  be  given  before  confinement  will  help  those  "  cramp- 
like  "  pains  of  women  in  the  latter  months  of  preg- 
nancy. In  some  women  you  will  get  excessive  saliva- 
tion during  some  part  of  their  pregnancy.  For  this 
condition  jaborandi  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets 
of  the  second  decimal  three  times  a  day.  A  dropsical 
condition  is  one  of  the  distressing  complications  some- 
times met  with  in  pregnancy.  The  best  remedy  to  re- 
move the  dropsy  is  Ext.  elaterium.  Dose,  one-tenth 
grain  every  four  hours.  It  will  produce  profuse  diure- 
sis and  fluid  discharges  from  the  bowels ;  it  has  pre- 
vented coma  and  convulsions  in  the  uremia  of  preg- 
nancy. For  the  heart  burn  which  frequently  presents 
itself  you  can  give  a  teaspoonful  of  elixir  Lactopeptine 
or  peptenzyme  after  each  meal.  Do  not  tell  the  woman 
(as  some  doctors  do)  when  called  to  prescribe  for  the 
ailments  of  a  pregnant  woman,  "  Oh,  it's  your  condi- 
tion ;  you  must  expect  all  these  things  until  after  you 
are  confined."  Such  a  doctor  should  be  discharged 
and  one  engaged  who  knows  how  to  care  for  a  woman 
during  pregnancy.  A  physician  who  is  not  capable  of 


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carrying  a  woman  safely  through  the  disorders  of 
pregnancy  should  not  be  trusted  to  attend  her  at  the 
time  of  her  confinement. 

You  may  be  called  to  a  case  of  severe  flooding  during 
confinement  and  such  cases  are  "  something  one  never 
forgets."  If  ever  a  doctor  needs  to  have  the  right 
remedy  it  is  then.  I  have  used  a  remedy  which  has 
never  failed  me  even  in  the  worst  cases.  Every  doctor 
should  keep  it  in  his  satchel  and  have  no  fear  of  the 
"  bleeders."  It  is  the  following: 

1^     Sulphuric  Acid  (by  weight),  3v. 
Oil  Turpenine,  fl.  5ii. 

Mix.  Place  the  acid  in  a  wedge  wood  mortar, 
slowly  add  the  turpentine  to  it,  stirring  the  mixture 
constantly  with  the  pestle.  Then  add  alcohol  503 
minims  in  the  same  manner,  constantly  stirring  until 
all  the  fumes  arise.  Place  it  in  a  well  secured  glass 
stoppled  bottle.  If  properly  made  the  mixture  will  be 
dark  red  color  like  dark  blood,  but  if  it  is  a  pale  dirty 
red  color  it  is  not  fit  to  use.  After  a  few  days  a  pel- 
licle forms  on  the  surface  which  must  be  broken  and 
the  fluid  below  it  used  when  needed.  Dose,  into  an 
ordinary  tea  cup  place  a  teaspoonful  of  brown  sugar, 
add  forty  drops  of  the  above  mixture,  mix  them  thor- 
oughly together;  slowly  stir  in  water  until  the  cup  is 
nearly  full.  This  should  be  immediately  swallowed 
by  the  patient.  Repeat  the  dose  in  an  hour  if  it  is 
needed.  This  is  called  "  Warren's  Styptic  Balsam," 
and  was  used  by  him  for  hemorrhages  from  the  uterus, 
stomach,  lungs  and  nose.  It  is  one  of  the  remedies 
handed  down  to  us  by  the  fathers  of  the  Eclectic 
School  of  Medicine. 


274  Definite  Medication 

It  is  well  to  instruct  your  patients  when  they  feel  the 
first  labor  pains  to  take  an  enema  of  warm  water  to 
clear  out  the  bowels ;  it  also  helps  to  relax  the  rigid  os. 
If  the  pains  are  not  regular  and  as  strong  as  they  might 
be,  place  twenty  drops  of  tincture  cimicifuga  in  a  glass 
of  water.  Mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour. 
It  will  produce  natural  pains  and  hasten  delivery.  It 
will  not  hurt  either  mother  or  child.  When  the  patient 
is  nervous,  restless,  and  the  os  is  rigid,  the  quickest 
way  to  overcome  the  rigidity  is  to  give  ten  drops  of 
Lloyd's  Spec.  Med.  jaborandi  every  half  hour.  One  or 
two  doses  will  produce  profuse  diaphoresis;  it  soothes 
the  patient,  she  bears  her  pains  better,  the  rigid  os  re- 
laxes, it  dilates  more  rapidly  and  in  a  short  time  the 
labor  is  terminated  satisfactorily.  This  takes  the  place 
of  the  forceps  and  "dope  "  or  chloroform. 

When  the  pains  are  pressing  down  upon  the  bladder 
or  rectum  and  the  patient  imagines  she  must  urinate  or 
have  a  stool,  nux  vomica  is  the  remedy.  Dose,  five 
drops  tincture  nux  vomica  in  a  glass  of  water ;  mix  and 
give  a  teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  You  will  have  pa- 
tients that  are  cross  and  peevish.  They  are  very  sensi- 
tive to  the  least  pain  and  exclaim  continually,  "  Oh,  I 
can't  bear  this  pain !  "  Give  them  tincture  chamomilla. 
Dose,  add  twenty  drops  to  four  ounces  of  water;  mix 
and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour. 

When  the  vitality  of  the  patient  is  low,  she  is  worn 
out  with  worry  and  trouble  of  some  kind,  patient  rest- 
less, tearful  and  nervous,  she  should  be  given  kali  phos. 
Dose,  add  five  grains  third  decimal,  kali  phos.  to  a  half 
cup  of  warm  water  and  give  the  patient  a  teaspoonful 
every  fifteen  minutes.  It  will  put  new  life  and  energy 
into  her,  strengthen  her  nerves  and  bring  on  strong 


Definite  Medication  275 

vigorous  pains  which  will  soon  terminate  the  labor. 
Your  patient  expects  you  to  help  her  in  her  hour  of 
trial  and  wants  you  to  do  something  for  her.  Study 
her  symptoms  carefully  and  give  the  remedy  indicated. 
If  the  afterbirth  does  not  come  away  with  the  child, 
wait  a  few  moments  for  the  woman  to  get  her  breath, 
then  grasp  the  hand  firmly  over  the  uterus,  tell  the 
woman  to  bear  down  and  one  or  two  pains  will  expel 
the  placenta.  For  the  after  pains  put  twenty  drops 
tincture  gelsemium  in  a  glass  of  water;  mix  and  give 
a  teaspoonful  every  half  hour.  If  your  patient  seems 
to  be  flowing  more  than  she  ought  put  a  teaspoonful 
of  pulverized  cinnamon  in  a  cup  of  hot  water  and  give 
a  teaspoonful  every  few  minutes.  It  will  check  the 
flow  to  about  the  natural  quantity. 

When  the  shoulder  presents,  fold  up  quilts  two  feet 
square,  and  pile  them  in  the  middle  of  the  bed,  about 
eight  inches  high.  Let  the  woman  kneel  on  this  pile 
of  quilts,  bringing  her  face  down  forwards  upon  the 
bed.  Pass  your  hand  into  the  vagina,  well  oiled  and 
if  the  shoulder,  uterus,  child  and  all  have  not  already 
passed  back,  press  very  gently  and  they  will  by  gravity 
pass  down  and  back.  Follow  with  the  hand  extended, 
when  the  fingers  will  readily  grasp  the  head ;  and  by  the 
aid  of  a  pain,  it  will  approach  and  engage  in  the  superior 
strait.  Retaining  the  grasp  with  the  fingers,  lay  the 
woman  on  her  left  side  or  back  and  you  will  have  a 
natural  presentation.  My  object  in  relating  this 
method  is,  that  it  is  far  better  than  the  old  rule— to 
turn  and  deliver — and  can  be  easily  accomplished  in 
less  than  two  minutes,  besides  being  altogether  free 
from  danger  both  to  mother  and  child.  I  trust,  before 
long  to  see  the  method  brought  more  prominently  be- 


276  Definite  Medication 

fore  the  profession;  and  I  am  certain  that  all  who  try 
it  will  be  delighted  with  the  results. 

During  the  years  that  I  practiced  obstetrics  in  a 
town  of  10,000  inhabitants,  I  had  more  cases  of  ob- 
sterics  than  any  of  the  other  physicians.  The  women 
liked  my  method  of  treating  such  cases.  They  got  up 
nicely  after  their  confinement  and  there  were  no  bad 
after  effects.  All  I  tried  to  do  was  to  assist  "  Nature." 


CHAPTER  XX 

SPECIAL   REMEDIES    FOR   THE    NON-SURGICAL   DISEASES   OF 
WOMAN 

Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


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CHAPTER  XX 

SPECIAL    REMEDIES    FOR   THE   NON-SURGICAL   DISEASES   OF 

WOMEN 

1AM  well  aware  of  the  fact  that  the  average  phy- 
sician in  this  country  is  not  well  posted  in  the  med- 
ical treatment  of  the  diseases  peculiar  to  women. 
Many  cases  are  sent  to  specialists  to  be  treated  or  to 
have  an  operation  performed.  All  this  takes  just  so 
much  money  out  of  the  pocket  of  the  general  practi- 
tioner. He  should  make  it  his  business  to  know  how 
to  cure  such  cases  himself.  It  is  the  fad  among  many 
doctors  to  operate  on  women  for  about  all  the  ailments 
they  have.  Thus  it  is  that  our  American  women  are 
being  mutilated,  unsexed,  degraded  to  gratify  the  sur- 
geons' greed  for  operations. 

Our  country  expects  so  much  of  her  mothers,  for 
"  the  hand  that  rocks  the  cradle  is  the  hand  that  rules 
the  world."  How  can  a  woman  perform  the  duties  of 
a  wife  and  mother  when  she  has  been  unsexed?  It  is 
no  credit  to  any  school  of  medicine  to  be  obliged  to 
admit  that  they  cannot  cure  the  most  common  ailments 
of  women  without  an  operation.  It  is  one  of  the  sins 
that  we  as  a  profession  are  being  called  to  answer  for 
before  the  "  bar  of  public  opinion." 

From  my  book  of  experience  I  will  try  and  tell  the 
reader  how  I  treat  such  cases  by  medicine. 

Girls  at  puberty,  when  their  menses  are  delayed,  de- 
velop headaches,  wandering  pains,  chorea,  and  some- 
times hysteria  and  epilepsy.  There  is  one  remedy  in- 


280  Definite  Medication 

dicated  in  such  cases.  Caulophyllum  in  the  form  of 
leontin  (Lloyd's),  given  in  fifteen  drop  doses  in  a  little 
sweetened  water  once  in  three  hours.  A  girl  may  be 
anemic ;  she  does  not  "  come  round  "  because  she  has 
not  the  blood  to  spare.  We  can  aid  Nature  in  this 
crisis  by  ferrum.  When  the  face  and  lips  are  pale,  of 
a  bluish  color,  the  face  becomes  red  from  the  least  pain 
or  emotion,  we  should  prescribe  three  tablets  once  in 
three  hours  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  of  ferrum. 
If  the  girl  complains  of  cold  hands  and  feet,  and  has  a 
dry,  rough  skin  with  suppressed  menses,  or  they  may 
be  irregular,  seven  drops  of  tincture  sanguinaria  three 
times  a  day  will  cure. 

If  the  menses  are  delayed  by  wet  feet,  in  a  woman 
of  a  mild,  gentle  disposition  pulsatilla  will  be  found 
valuable.  Add  xx.  gtts.  tincture  pulsatilla  to  aqua  §iv. 
and  give  teaspoonful  doses  once  an  hour.  If,  with  the 
suppression  of  the  menses,  the  patient  is  extremely 
restless,  skin  dry  and  hot,  vagina  dry  and  hot,  twenty 
gtts.  of  the  third  decimal  dilution  of  tincture  aconite 
in  a  glass  of  water — teaspoonful  once  an  hour — will 
remove  the  disagreeable  symptoms. 

In  amenorrhea  of  young  girls  with  aching  pains  in 
the  hips  and  loins,  a  feeling  of  weight  and  tension  in 
the  loins,  tincture  polygonum  punctatum  is  the  rem- 
edy. Add  tincture  polygonum  3ii.  to  aqua  §iv.,  and 
give  teaspoonful  once  in  three  hours.  For  irregular 
menstruation  with  uterine  or  cervical  leucorrhea,  that 
replaces  the  menses,  we  need  tincture  senecio  aurens. 
It  is  the  female  "  regulator."  Add  3i.  of  the  tincture 
senecio  to  *vi.  of  water  and  give  in  teaspoonful  doses 
once  in  three  hours.  For  profuse  menstruation,  where 
there  is  pain  extending  from  the  back  to  the  pubes  and 


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the  blood  is  partially  clotted  and  partially  fluid  with  a 
discharge  of  blood,  sometimes,  between  the  periods, 
sabina  is  the  remedy.  Put  ten  gtts.  of  tincture  sabina 
in  a  glass  of  water  and  direct  your  patient  to  take  a 
teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  If  the  menses  are  too  fre- 
quent— come  every  two  weeks  and  last  seven  or  eight 
days  with  profuse,  yellowish  leucorrhea  between  the 
periods — the  second  decimal  trituration  of  trillum 
should  be  administered.  Give  three  tablets  four  times 
a  day. 

In  some  women  the  menses  are  dark  colored  with 
many  clots ;  the  menses  are  long  continued,  a  slow, 
persistent,  oozing  discharge  of  blood ;  the  os  has  a  soft, 
spongy  feeling  and  is  somewhat  dilated.  For  such  a 
condition  the  ustilago  maydis  is  the  remedy.  Give 
three  tablets  of  the  first  decimal  trituration  three  times 
a  day.  If  the  menses  are  black,  viscid,  clotted  in  long 
black  strings  and  a  sensation  experienced  as  if  there 
was  something  alive  in  the  abdomen,  the  tincture  cro- 
cus sativa  should  be  given.  Direct  your  patient  to  take 
five  gtts.  of  this  remedy  in  a  little  water  every  three 
hours.  For  painful  menstruation  when  the  patient  has 
intense  cramping  pains  in  the  uterus,  the  menses  are 
scanty  and  a  heavy  congested  feeling  in  the  ovaries, 
viburnum  opulus  is  an  excellent  remedy.  I  have  re- 
lieved many  cases  by  tincture  gelsemium,  eights  gtts. 
once  in  fifteen  minutes.  The  best  prescription  for  the 
relief  of  such  cases  is : 

^     Tincture  gelsemium,  gtts.  xx. 
Tincture  viburnum  Op.  3ii. 
Leontin  (Lloyd),  3iii. 
Simple  syrup,  q.  s.  %vi. 


282  Definite  Medication 

Mix.  Sig.  Teaspoonful  once  in  half  an  hour  until 
relieved. 

To  cure  such  cases  I  prefer  Fl.  ext.  viburnum  pruni- 
folium,  xx.  gtts.  in  a  half  teaspoonful  of  simple  elixir 
four  times  a  day — to  be  administered  between  the  pe- 
riods. Magnesia  phosphate  is  indicated  in  cramping 
pains  relieved  by  heat,  and  when  the  dysmenorrhea  is 
of  a  purely  neuralgic  character.  Ten  grains  of  the 
third  decimal  trituration  should  be  put  in  a  cup  of  hot 
water  and  two  teaspoonfuls  given  every  few  minutes. 
When  the  pain  is  of  a  griping,  twisting  nature — made 
worse  by  bending  forward  and  lying  down,  relieved 
by  standing  on  the  feet  and  bending  backward,  the 
tincture  of  dioscorea  will  relieve.  Add  Tr.  dioscorea 
3i.  to  aqua  %iv.  and  give  one  teaspoonful  once  in 
half  an  hour.  In  congestive  dysmenorrhea  with  throb- 
bing headaches,  in  plethoric  girls  and  women,  where 
the  menses  are  scanty  and  the  pulse  hard  and  tense,  we 
should  not  forget  tincture  veratrum  viride.  Give  five 
gtts.  of  the  first  decimal  dilution  three  times  a  day. 

In  congestion  of  the  os  uteri,  with  the  abdomen  sen- 
sitive to  external  touch,  with  burning  and  stinging 
pains,  a  feeling  of  fullness  as  if  everything  was  press- 
ing toward  the  vulva,  tincture  belladonna  is  the  rem- 
edy. Add  twenty  gtts.  of  third  decimal  dilution  to  a 
glass  of  water  and  give  teaspoonful  once  an  hour.  In 
congestion  of  the  os  uteri  with  stitching  pains,  extend- 
ing from  the  vagina  to  the  umbilicus,  a  profuse  leucor- 
rhea  of  a  fetid  odor,  sensation  of  a  ball  or  weight  in  the 
rectum,  flashes  of  heat,  stomach  feels  empty,  urine 
reddish,  and  very  offensive  and  adheres  to  the  bottom 
of  the  vessel,  sepia  is  the  remedy  indicated.  Prescribe 
three  tablets  of  the  sixth  decimal  trituration  four  times 


Definite  Medication  283 

a  day.  In  ulceration  of  the  os  uteri  with  a  discharge 
like  pus  I  have  always  obtained  good  results  from 
three  drop  doses  of  tincture  belladonna  given  once  in 
three  hours.  With  the  belladonna  I  have  given  in  al- 
ternation three  drop  doses  of  Fowler's  Solution  once  in 
three  hours.  Locally  I  use  Micajah's  Uterine  Wafers, 
inserting  one  every  other  night  between  the  menstrual 
periods. 

For  leucorrhea  I  depend  upon  hamamelin  first  deci- 
mal trituration,  giving  three  tablets  four  times  a  day. 
In  leucorrhea,  where  the  discharge  is  milky  white  and 
non-irritating  kali  mur.  should  be  given.  I  prescribe 
three  tablets  of  the  third  decimal  trituration  once  in 
two  hours.  When  the  uterus  and  its  appendages  feel 
as  if  they  were  being  dragged  out  of  the  body,  with  a 
leucorrhea  that  comes  on  every  few  days  in  torrents 
of  thick,  yellowish  discharge,  the  third  decimal  tritura- 
tion of  secale  cornutum  is  the  remedy.  Give  three  tab- 
lets three  times  a  day. 

For  pruritus  of  the  vagina  there  is  one  prescription 
which  I  have  used  for  years  that  has  never  failed  to 
stop  the  itching  of  these  parts.  It  is  the  following : 

^  Powdered  borax,  3iv. 
Fl.  ext.  hydrastis,  ^ii. 
Aqua,  giv. 

Mix.     Sig.     Bathe  the  parts  four  times  a  day. 

Internally  we  have  one  remedy  especially  indicated 
when  there  is  a  yellow  leucorrhea,  itching  of  the  parts 
covered  with  hair,  and  bruised,  painful  feeling  in  the 
ovaries.  It  is  fagopyrum  esculentum.  Three  tablets 
of  the  third  decimal  trituration  should  be  taken  once  in 
two  hours. 


284  Definite  Medication 

In  prolapsus  uteri  when  there  is  a  dragging  sensa- 
tion in  the  lower  part  of  the  abdomen,  the  back  feels 
as  if  it  were  broken  and  pains  extend  along  the  outer 
side  of  the  thighs ;  the  patient  talks  about  "  her  womb," 
is  conscious  that  she  has  one  and  it  is  sore  and  tender, 
and  there  is  a  tendency  to  melancholia,  helonias  dioica 
is  specially  indicated.  Give  tincture  helonius  in  ten 
drop  doses  three  times  a  day.  If  there  is  pressure  and 
bearing  down  as  if  everything  would  protrude  from 
the  pelvis,  she  feels  as  if  she  must  sit  close  and  cross 
her  legs  to  prevent  it,  and  there  is  a  yellow  saddlle 
across  the  nose  and  cheeks,  sepia  is  the  remedy.  Pre- 
scribe three  tablets  of  sepia  sixth  decimal  trituration 
four  times  a  day. 

In  displacements  of  the  uterus  with  bearing  down 
feeling,  frequent  desire  to  urinate,  cannot  walk  on  rough 
ground,  only  flows  when  she  moves  about,  tincture 
lilium  tigrinum  should  be  used.  Give  in  five  drop 
doses  three  times  a  day.  Locally  I  like  the  uterine 
wafers  as  mentioned  above.  In  all  the  years  of  my 
practice  I  have  never  used  pessaries,  outside  or  inside, 
supporters,  or  had  any  operation  performed  upon  any 
of  my  patients,  yet  I  have  never  failed  to  cure  the  worst 
cases  of  prolapsus  with  the  above  treatment.  In  many 
cases  of  displacement  of  the  uterus  where  pessaries,  or 
supporters,  are  used  the  real  cause  of  the  prolapsus  is 
because  of  the  enlargement  of  the  uterus.  It  is  heavy 
and  it  drops  from  its  own  weight.  From  this  it  is  evi- 
dent how  silly  it  is  to  try  to  keep  it  in  its  natural  posi- 
tion by  any  mechanical  support.  When  you  can  re- 
duce the  enlargement  of  the  uterus  you  remove  the 
cause  and  the  position  becomes  normal.  When  there 
is  an  enlargement  and  a  heavy  bearing  down  feeling 


Definite  Medication  285 

fraxinus  americanus  is  the  remedy.  Direct  ten  drops 
of  the  tincture  to  be  taken  three  times  a  day.  Many 
cases  of  enlargement  of  the  uterus  are  called  fibroid 
tumors  of  the  uterus. 

In  metritis  I  have  always  depended  upon  tincture 
gelsemium  and  tincture  macrotys,  twenty  drops  of 
each  in  a  glass  of  water.  Teaspoonful  every  hour.  Ex- 
ternally I  use  bags  of  hops  and  wormwood  moistened 
with  hot  vinegar  and  changed  every  half  hour.  In 
chronic  metritis  with  thickening  of  the  cervical  canal, 
menses  too  soon,  yellowish  leucorrhea,  dragging  sensa- 
tions in  the  pelvic  organs  use  third  decimal  trituration 
of  aurum  muriaticum,  giving  three  grains  one  hour 
after  each  meal. 

In  acute  salpingitis  where  there  is  acute,  sharp,  lan- 
cinating pain  on  the  affected  side,  with  tenderness  on 
pressure  aggravated  by  motion,  I  have  depended  upon 
ferri  phos.  third  decimal  trituration  and  kali  mur.,  third 
decimal  trituration,  of  each  five  grains  in  a  cup  of  hot 
water,  giving  two  teaspoonfuls  every  half  hour.  Ap- 
ply locally  bags  of  hops  and  wormwood  moistened 
with  hot  vinegar  and  change  every  half  hour.  I  saved 
a  doctor's  wife  from  a  surgical  operation  by  this  treat- 
ment and  cured  her  in  a  week's  time. 

A  Greek  philosopher  wrote  that  woman  was  "  an 
animal  with  a  pain  in  her  side  and  constipated  bowels." 
For  that  pain  in  her  side,  just  under  the  left  breast, 
give  macrotin,  first  decimal  trituration.  Dose,  three 
tablets  once  in  three  hours. 

Vaginismus  of  the  newly  married  woman  may  make 
trouble  in  the  family  unless  it  can  be  remedied.  I 
have  used  an  ointment  of  hydrochlorate  cocaine,  five 
grains  to  the  ounce  of  vaseline,  the  ointment  to  be  ap- 


286  Definite  Medication 

plied  to  the  inside  of  the  vagina  before  retiring.  In 
women  who  are  thin,  rigid  and  spare,  with  dark  hair, 
platinum,  sixth  decimal  trituration,  is  the  remedy ;  give 
three  tablets  once  in  two  hours.  In  congestion  of  the 
ovary,  swollen  and  indurated,  distress  relieved  from 
starting  of  the  flow,  menses  scanty,  black,  and  offen- 
sive, the  sixth  decimal  dilution  of  lachesis  is  the  rem- 
edy. Add  ten  drops  to  half  a  glass  of  water  and  give 
two  teaspoonfuls  once  an  hour.  When  from  ovarian 
irritation  we  have  burning,  stinging  pains  and  soreness 
in  the  ovary  which  is  large  and  sensitive,  tincture  apis 
mel.  will  give  relief.  Place  twenty  drops  in  a  glass  of 
water  and  give  one  teaspoonful  every  hour.  Pain  in 
the  right  ovary,  running  down  the  right  thigh,  calls  for 
podophyllin.  Prescribe  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours 
of  the  sixth  decimal  trituration. 

In  nymphomania  where  the  sexual  desire  is  easily 
excited,  the  least  touch  of  the  sexual  organs  causes 
violent  sexual  excitement — menses  are  irregular  with 
large  clots,  murex  purpurea,  sixth  decimal  dilution, 
is  the  needed  remedy.  Add  twenty  drops  to  a  glass  of 
water  and  give  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours. 

Sterility.  Out  of  five  hundred  and  five  cases  of  ste- 
rility three  hundred  and  forty-three  had  uterine  dis- 
placements, or  about  two-thirds  of  the  whole.  There 
are  three  forms,  prolapsus  uteri,  anteflexion  or  retro- 
flexion.  Study  the  symptoms  of  each  case  carefully 
and  give  the  remedy  indicated.  Don't  depend  upon 
pessaries  to  cure  such  cases.  The  Almighty  never  in- 
tended that  a  woman  should  be  harnessed  up  like  a  horse. 

There  are  cases  where  the  natural  position  during 
intercourse  is  not  the  proper  one  to  induce  conception. 
In  cases  of  retroversion,  if  the  position  of  husband  and 


Definite  Medication  287 

wife  are  reversed  during  intercourse  conception  is  more 
apt  to  occur.  In  anteflexion  I  have  known  cases  where 
conception  has  taken  place  when  the  parties  concerned 
had  intercourse  in  the  standing  position. 

Induration  of  the  cervix  uteri  is  another  cause  of 
sterility ;  conception  cannot  take  place  because  the 
ovum  slips  out  of  the  uterus  before  it  is  fertilized.  We 
have  one  remedy  which  we  can  depend  upon  in  such 
cases,  Aurum  Muriaticum  Nat.  (double  chloride  of  gold 
and  sodium).  Give  three  grains  of  the  third  decimal 
trituration  one  hour  after  each  meal.  It  will  soften  the 
indurations,  increase  the  strength  and  appetite  and,  in 
two  or  three  months,  will  often  produce  the  result  de- 
sired and  the  woman  will  be  "  in  the  way  women  like 
to  be  who  love  their  lords."  As  a  local  application  I 
like  ichthyol  and  glycerine,  equal  parts,  to  be  applied 
by  means  of  a  tampon  pressed  up  against  the  os  uteri. 
This  tampon  should  be  renewed  once  in  twelve  hours. 
In  women  with  acrid  leucorrhea,  soreness,  abrasions 
of  the  os  uteri  and  vagina — there  is  membranous  dys- 
menorrhea — borax  is  the  remedy,  administer  in  doses 
of  three  grains  three  times  a  day.  Locally  apply 
boracic  acid  on  a  sponge  to  which  a  narrow  ribbon  or 
string  is  attached.  Roll  the  sponge  in  fine  powdered 
boracic  acid  after  it  has  been  moistened  in  glycerine. 
Place  the  sponge  in  the  vagina,  push  it  up  tight  against 
the  os  uteria  and  allow  it  to  remain  for  twenty-four 
hours,  when  it  should  be  removed  and  a  fresh  one  in- 
serted. The  borax  has  often  produced  conception  and 
the  labors  after  its  use  are  easy.  In  vaginitis  the  leu- 
corrhea is  often  of  an  abnormal  acid  condition,  which  is 
fatal  to  the  life  of  the  spermatazoa,  thus  preventing 
the  desired  conception.  We  may  overcome  this  diffi- 


288  Definite  Medication 

culty  by  placing  a  tampon  moistened  with  the  follow- 
ing prescription  in  the  vagina : 

1$     Bi-carbonate  sodium,  grs.  xx. 
Glycerine,  §j.     Mix. 

Tie  a  string  to  the  tampon  and  place  it  in  position 
the  latter  part  of  the  afternoon  allowing  it  to  remain 
in  situ  until  the  next  morning.  Let  the  removal  be 
followed  by  intercourse  and  conception  may  take  place. 

There  may  be  an  abnormal  irritability  of  the  clitoris, 
causing  an  excessive  secretion  of  the  cervical  glands. 
This  may  lead  and  often  does  lead  to  masturbation. 
When  the  genitalia  are  excessively  sensitive,  cannot  bear 
to  be  touched,  will  almost  go  into  spasms  with  the  ex- 
amination, platina  is  the  remedy.  Give  three  tablets 
of  the  sixth  decimal  trituration  once  in  two  hours. 

Frigidity,  the  absence  of  the  sexual  desire,  is  another 
cause  of  sterility.  The  more  passionate  a  woman  is 
the  more  likely  she  is  to  conceive.  Women  who  are 
worn  out  by  worry  or  hard  work  sometimes  lose  their 
sexual  passion.  In  such  cases  give  the  Fid.  Ext.  saw 
palmetto,  twenty  drops  in  a  little  water  after  each 
meal.  It  seems  to  vitalize  and  invigorate  the  whole 
system,  restore  the  sexual  desire,  and  conception  may 
take  place  in  a  short  time. 

When  married  people  want  to  have  children  they 
should  remember  to  have  intercourse  on  the  last  day  of 
the  menstrual  period  or  on  the  third,  fifth,  or  seventh 
day  after  the  period  has  ceased.  Diabetes,  ulceration 
of  the  os  uteri,  fibroid  tumors,  and  enlargements  of 
the  uterus  should  all  be  considered  as  causes  of  ste- 
rility, and  must  be  treated  by  the  indicated  remedies. 


CHAPTER  XXI 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  MENOPAUSE 
Extract  from  the  Preface 

"  The  eclectic  remedies  mentioned  in  this  book,  especially 
the  tinctures,  are  Lloyd's  Specific  Medicines.  Many  years' 
experience  has  proved  them  to  be  thoroughly  reliable  and 
convenient  for  dispensing. 

"  I  have  bought  my  homeopathic  remedies  for  forty  years 
of  Boericke  &  Tafel,  of  Philadelphia,  and  know  them  to  be 
perfectly  reliable.  Most  of  the  tinctures  and  triturates  are 
now  put  up  in  tablet  form,  a  tablet  representing  a  grain  of 
the  drug." 


Definite  Medication  291 

CHAPTER  XXI 

SPECIAL  REMEDIES   FOR  THE  MENOPAUSE 

FOR  the  hot  flashes  at  the  "change  of  life"  I 
have  found  the  fourth  decimal  trituration  of 
sepia  the  most  successful  remedy.  Dose,  three 
tablets  once  in  three  hours.  For  excessive  flooding  we 
should  always  give  Hayden's  Viburnum  Compound. 
Dose,  half  a  teaspoonful  once  in  two  hours  in  a  little 
cold  sweetened  water. 

Women  at  the  menopause  who,  because  of  grief  and 
worriment,  have  persistent  cold  feet  and  legs,  should 
be  given  ignatia.  Dose,  add  fifteen  drops  tincture  ig- 
natia  to  four  ounces  of  water ;  mix  and  give  the  patient 
a  teaspoonful  every  two  hours. 

Edema  of  the  Feet  and  Legs.  Women  at  the  climac- 
teric are  frequently  troubled  with  edema  of  the  legs 
and  feet.  Such  patients  should  be  given  one-twelfth 
grain  apocynin  (three  granules)  once  in  three  hours. 

Prickling  of  the  Hands  and  Feet.  When  there  is  prick- 
ling of  the  hands  and  feet  and  they  feel  as  if  they  were 
asleep  (the  warning  symptoms  of  apoplexy)  we  shall 
know  that  they  need  kali  phos.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  third  decimal  trituration  once  in  two  hours.  When 
the  feet  are  "  figity,"  cannot  keep  them  still  you  should 
prescribe  the  third  decimal  trituration  of  zincum  me- 
talicum.  Dose,  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours. 

In  plethoric,  full  blooded  women  who  complain  of 
headache  with  beating  and  throbbing  of  the  brain  and 
carotids,  you  will  need  veratrum  viride.  Dose,  five 
drops  of  the  first  decimal  dilution  once  in  three  hours. 


292  Definite  Medication 

When  with  the  headache  the  head  feels  confused  and 
bigger  than  it  ought,  belladonna  is  the  needed  remedy. 
Dose,  add  five  drops  tincture  belladonna  to  four  ounces 
of  water;  mix  and  give  a  teaspoonful  every  hour  for 
three  hours,  afterwards  once  in  three  hours. 

For  the  "  sinking  at  the  stomach  "  of  which  women 
frequently  complain  at  this  period  of  their  lives,  you 
should  prescribe  cimicifuga.  Dose,  ten  drops  of  the 
third  decimal  dilution,  tincture  cimicifuga,  once  in 
three  hours. 

Women  at  the  menopause  frequently  complain  of  a 
burning  pressure  upon  the  vertex;  this  is  usually  a 
symptom  of  debility  from  loss  of  blood.  Give  such 
patients  three  tablets  of  the  first  decimal  china,  before 
each  meal  and  three  tablets  first  decimal  ferrum  after 
each  meal.  Giddiness,  rush  of  blood  to  the  head, 
throbbing,  beating,  noises  in  the  ear  teach  us  to 
think  of  glonoin.  Dose,  twenty  drops,  third  decimal 
dilution  should  be  added  to'  a  glass  of  water  and  a  tea- 
spoonful  given  of  this  mixture  once  in  two  hours. 

Tinnitus  Aurum.  When  tinnitus  aurum  is  a  promi- 
nent symptom  at  the  menopause,  I  have  prescribed  suc- 
cessfully Fl.  Ext.  Ergot.  Dose,  ten  drops  three  times 
a  day. 

Enlargement  of  the  Uterus.  Enlargement  of  the  uterus 
with  heavy  pressing  down  feeling  calls  for  fraxinus 
americanus.  Dose,  ten  drops  tincture  fraxinus  three 
times  a  day.  We  may  sometimes  find  at  the  meno- 
pause a  peculiar  bag  like  swelling  in  the  upper  eye- 
lids, an  indication  of  a  weak  heart.  The  heart's  action 
is  irregular  and  intermittent.  In  such  cases  kali  car- 
bonica  is  the  indicated  remedy.  Dose,  three  tablets  of 
the  third  decimal  trituration  once  in  two  hours. 


Definite  Medication  293 

Some  women  at  the  climacteric  have  a  headache  and 
backache ;  they  feel  all  the  time  "  as  if  the  back  and 
legs  must  give  out/'  the  aching  extends  into  the  hips 
and  gluteal  muscles,  she  drops  into  a  chair  or  throws 
herself  on  the  bed  completely  exhausted.  Such  pa- 
tients should  be  given  the  third  decimal  trituration  of 
kali  carb.  three  tablets  once  in  two  hours. 

Study  each  patient  carefully  and  prescribe  the  indi- 
cated remedy.  The  menopause  is  the  "  crisis  "  in  a 
woman's  life.  It  is  then  she  needs  the  most  skillful 
treatment  that  a  physician  can  give.  Many  times  in  my 
professional  life  I  have  had  women  consult  me  com- 
plaining of  different  symptoms.  They  will  often  say, 
"  My  doctor  says  it  is  the  change  of  life  and  I  must  ex- 
pect all  kinds  of  queer  feelings."  I  have  only  this  crit- 
icism to  make,  that  any  physician  who  cannot  carry  a 
woman  successfully  through  the  menopause  and  be 
able  to  prescribe  intelligently  for  her  various  ailments, 
should  step  aside  and  let  a  better  man  take  his  place. 


Index 


PAGB 

ABSCESS 217 

Alnunin 218 

Alnus  rubra 218 

Beeswax 213 

Burgundy  pitch       ....  218 
Calcarea   sulph.   -     -     -      217,  218 

Echafolta 219 

Echinacea        218 

Eclectic  wash 219 

Hepar  sulph. 217 

Libradol 217 

Mutton  tallow 218 

Olive  oil 218 

Poultice    (slippery    elm,    lo- 
belia,   flaxseed)     ....  217 
Turpentine,  white  pine     -     -  218 

ACNE 197 

Belladonna 197 

Berberis  aquifolium      ...  197 

Boracic  acid  ------  197 

Calcarea  sulph. 197 

Ergotin 197 

Ichthyol 197 

Juglandine      - 197 

Potash  nitrate 197 

Potassium  bromide       ...  197 

Quinine  sulph.     .....  197 

ALOPECIA 144 

Bath  (Epsom  salts)     -     -     -  144 

Burgamont  oil     -----  144 

Cantharis 144 

Castor  oil 144 

Lavender,  oil  of       ....  144 

Lemon,  oil  of      .....  144 

AMBLYOPIA 155 

Aconite 155 

Kali  phos. 155 

Nux   vomica   ------  155 

Phosphoric  acid       ....  155 


PAGR 

ANEMIA 213 

Calcarea  phos. 214 

Cinchona  (china)     ....  213 

Digitalin 213 

Ferrum  metallicum       -     .     -  213 

Helonias  dioica 214 

Natrum  muriaticum  spts.      -  213 

ANEMIA   (Cerebral)      -     -     -  214 

Calcarea  phos. 214 

Kali  phos. 214 

ANEMIA  (Pernicious)  -     -     -  214 

Arsenicum  album     ....  214 

Calcarea  phos. 215 

Carduus 215 

Picricum  acidum      ....  214 

ANEURISM 227 

Barium  chloride       ....  227 

Calcarea  flouride      ....  227 

Epsom  salts 227 

Potash  iodide 227 

Veratrum  viride 227 

ANGINA  PECTORIS    -    -     -  85 

Crategus     .......  85 

Glonoin 85 

Lobelia 85 

Spigelia -  85 

ANUS  (Prolapsus)     -     -     -     -  101 

Aesculus  hippo 101 

Hamamelis      ......  101 

ANUS  (Fissure) 101 

Krameria 101 

Paeonia  officinalis    ....  101 

Salicylic  acid 101 

APHONIA 59 

Eriginon,  oil  of        ....  59 

Potash  bi-chromate      ...  59 

Rhus  glabra 59 

Strychnine  sulph.     ....  59 
(296) 


296 


Index 


1 

PAGE 

i 

•AGE 

APHTHEA        

93 

BALANITIS     

139 

Bismuth  sub-nitrate      -     -     - 

93 

Castile   soap   ------ 

140 

Boro-glycerine  (sol)     -     -     - 

93 

Zinc  sulph.     ------ 

140 

Kali  mur.  

93 

BARBER'S  ITCH     -    ... 

193 

APOPLEXY     

36 

Carbolic  acid       

205 

Aconite       .--..-. 

36 

Creosote     

204 

Ferri  phos.      

36 

Poultice    (flaxseed)       -     -     - 

204 

Kali  mur.        

36 

Sulphur  iodide     -     -     -      193, 

204 

Kali  phos.       ...... 

36 

BLADDER  (Calculus  in)  -     - 

126 

APPENDICITIS  

97 

Magnesia  boro  citras       •     - 

126 

Castor  oil  

99 

Dioscorea   ------- 

98 

BOILS      

219 

Enema  (salt  and  olive  oil)    - 

99 

Aconite       

219 

98 

Arctium  lappa     

219 

Ipecac    

99 

Arnica    

219 

Kali  mur.  ------- 

99 

Belladonna      ------ 

219 

Poultice   (flaxseed)       -     -     - 

99 

Calcarea  sulph.   -     -     -     -     - 

220 

Echinacea        ----.. 

219 

ARTERIO  SCLEROSIS    -    - 

87 

Hamamelis      ...... 

219 

Arsenic  iodide     -     -     - 

88 

Calcarea  flouride      -     ... 

87 

BRAIN  FAG    

249 

Phosphoric  acid       -     -     -     - 

88 

Belladonna      - 

250 

Strychnine  sulph.     -     -     -     - 

88 

Coccinella   sept.       .... 

250 

Veratrum  viride  -     -     -     -     - 

87 

Codiine       ..--... 

250 

Ignatia        - 

249 

ASTHENOPIA      

154 

Phosphoric  acid  (dil)       -    - 

250 

Asarum  europaeum       -     -     - 

154 

Picric   acid     --..-. 

249 

Kali  carb.  ------- 

155 

Spigelia       ------- 

250 

Ruta  graveolus    -     -     -     -     - 
Sepia      -     - 
Strychnine  sulph.      -     -     .     - 

154 
155 
155 

BRIGHT'S  DISEASE  (Acute) 
Bath   (Epsom  salts)     -     -     - 
Calcarea  phos.     -     -     -     -     - 

130 
131 
132 

ASTHMA      

58 

Calcarea   sulph.   

132 

Aspidosperma   quebracho 

58 

Cantharis         

131 

Gelsemium       -    -        -     -    - 

59 

Kali    mur.        

131 

Grindelia  robusta    -     ... 

58 

Kali   phos.       - 

132 

Lobelia       ....... 

58 

Triticum  repens       .... 

131 

Sumbul       ....... 

59 
59 

BRIGHT'S  DISEASE 
(Chronic)    

132 

AURIUM    (Polypus)      -    -    - 

156 

Chelonin     ------- 

132 

Calcarea  carb.     

156 

Helonin      ------- 

132 

Salicylic  acid       ..... 

156 

Iron  by  hydrogen  -     -     -     - 

132 

AURIUM   (Eczema)       -     -    - 

156 

BROMIDIOSIS     

207 

Aristol         

156 

Baryta   carbonica    -     -     -     - 

208 

Calcarea    sulph.        .... 

156 

Nitric   acid     ------ 

208 

Eucalyptus      

156 

Sepia      

208 

Rhus    tox        ...... 

156 

208 

297 


PAGE 

BRONCHITIS    (Acute)     -    -  55 

Aconite 55 

Asclepias    -----.-  55 

Hepar    sulph.       -----  56 

Kali   mur. 55 

Innula  helenium      ....  55 

Stillingia 56 

Wild   cherry 56 

BRONCHITIS   (Chronic)       -  56 

Bath  (Epsom  salts)     -     -    -  56 

Stannum          ------  56 

Strychnine  sulph.    -     -     -     -  5G 

RRONCOCELE 63 

Calcarea  iodide 63 

Iodine 63 

Iris  versicolor 63 

Phytolacca 63 

BUBOES 139 

Calcarea  sulph. 139 

Iodine 139 

Kali   mur. 139 

Poultice    (slippery    elm,    lo- 
belia,  flaxseed)     -     -     -     -  139 


CANCER 


209 


CARBUNCLE       220 

Carbolic   acid 220 

Cupping  glass 220 

Echinacea        ------  220 

Hepar  sulph. 220 

Kali    mur. 220 

Strychnine  sulph.     -     -     -     -  220 

Tarantula   cubensis       •     -     -  221 


CATARACT      -     - 

Calcarea  flouride 
Causticum  «  * 
Phosphorus 


-  -  156 

-  -  156 

-  -  156 

-  -  156 


Silicea 158 

Sulphur  iodide 150 

CATARRH   (Chronic)    ...  49 

Ammonia   aqua 50 

Camphor    -------  50 

Carbolic  acid 50 

Iodine 50 

Potash   bi-chromate      -     -     -  50 


Sanguinaria  nitrate 
Soda  sulpho  carbolate 


PACK 
50 
50 


CATARRH    (Nasal)       ...  48 

Ammonia  muriate   -     ...  49 

Calcarea  phos. 49 

Ferri   phos. 49 

Gaultheria,   oil  of    -     -     -     -  49 

Kali    mur. 49 

Natrum  mur. 49 

Nitre    (Sol.) 49 

Sodae  boras 49 

CATALEPSY 186 

Cauabis  indica    ....     -  186 

Pulsatilla 186 

Stramonium 186 

CEREBRAL  CONGESTION  35 

Aconite -  35 

Belladonna 35 

Veratrum  viride      ....  35 

CEREBRO    SPINAL    MEN- 
INGITIS      25 

Belladonna 27 

Calcarea  phos.     -     -     -     -     26,  28 

Cimicifuga       ......  27 

Echinacea        • 27 

Epsom  salts   (bath)     -    -    -  28 

Ferri   phos. 20 

Gelsemium       -...--  27 

Ice    (externally)       ...     -  25 

Kali   phos. 26.  28 

Libradol 26 

Magnesia  phos. 26 

Mustard   paste    -     ....  26 

Morphine 25,  28 

Natrium  sulph.   -----  26 

Passaflora        28 


flT  A  WPWT? 

-    -     -     -    139 

Ferrum   chloride 
Zinc  ointment     • 

CHICKEN    POX 

-    ...    139 
..--    139 

....     242 
-     -    -    -     24° 

.    .    -     •    243 

.     .     .     .     *>4'i 

Quinia   arsenate 

....     243 

298 


Index 


PAGB 

CHLOASMA 206 

Euonymus       ......  206 

Lactic   acid 206 

CHLOROSIS 221 

Alumina 221 

Digitalin 222 

Ferrum   metallicum      ...  222 

Natrum  muriaticum     ...  221 

Pulsatilla 221 

Senecio   aurens 221 

CHOLERA  ASIATICA     -    -  102 

Belladonna 103 

Bath    (alcohol) 103 

Camphor 103 

Cuprum   metallicum     ...  103 

Ice  cold   water 103 

Phosphoric  acid       ....  103 

Veratrum    alba 103 

CHOLERA  INFANTUM       -  103 

Cuphea  viscosissima    ...  103 

Euphorbia  corollata     ...  104 

Ferrum    phos.      .....  104 

Tomato  soup 104 

CHOLERA  MORBUS       -    -  99 

Aconite 99 

Ammonia  arom.  spts.       -     -  99 

Magnesia  carb.  .....  99 

Menth   piperita  aqua  -     -     -  99 

Nux  vomica  ......  99 

Paste   (mustard)      ....  99 

CHOREA 185 

Agaricus   rruscarius     ...  183 

Calcarea    phos. 185 

Cimicifuga -  185 

Cypripedium        .....  185 

Ferri   carbonas    .....  185 

Fowler's    Solution   ....  183 

Gelsemium 185 

Magnesia   phos.       ....  185 

Port  wine 185 

Scutellaria 185 

CHOROIDITIS 152 

Belladonna 152 

Kali    mur. 152 

Prunus    spinosa        ....  152 


PAGE 
CHOROIDITIS   (Suppurative)   152 

Rhus  tox 152 

Viola   odorata 152 


COLIC 

Colocynth        • 

Dioscorea        

Magnesia  phosphate     -     -     • 

COLIC    (Gallstone)    .     .     .    . 
Chelidonium    majus      -     -     • 

Euonymin        

Hydrastis         

Juglands   (Syr.)        .     .     -     . 

Olive    oil 

Podophyllinn        -     -     -     -     • 

COLIC    (Lead) 

Potash    iodide 

White  liquid  physic     -     -     - 

COLIC    (Renal) 

Dioscorea        

CONCUSSION   OF   THE 

BRAIN 

Belladonna      .-.--. 
Cold   applications    -     -     .     . 

CONJUNCTIVITIS       -    -    - 
Ferri   phos.     ...... 

Hamamelis      ...... 

Hepar  sulph.       .     .     .     .     . 

Morphia   sulph.   -     -     -     -     - 

Zinc    sulphate     -     .     -     -    . 

CONJUNCTIVITIS 

(Catarrhal) 

Belladonna      ------ 

Euphrasia        ..-.-. 

Hydrastis  muriate  -     -     -     - 

CONJUNCTIVITIS     (Gonor- 

rheal) 

Aconite 

Borax 

Silver  nitrate      .     .     .     .     - 

Thuja 

CONJUNCTIVITIS    (Granu- 
lar)      

Kali    mur. 

Mercury  yellow  oxide       -     - 

Potash  sequi  carb.       -     -     - 


108 
109 
108 
109 

117 
118 
117 
117 
118 
117 
117 

108 
108 
108 

133 
133 

34 

34 

34 

149 

149 

149 

149 

149 

149 

150 
150 
151 
151 

150 
150 
150 
150 
150 

151 
151 
151 

151 


Index 


299 


PAGE 

CONJUNCTIVITIS     (Puru- 
lent)          149 

Hatnamelis 150 

Hepar  sulph. 150 

Rhus  tox         15(3 

Silver   nitrate 150 

CONJUNCTIVITIS    (Scrofu- 
lous)          150 

Boric    acid    (Sol.)    ....  150 

Ergot 150 

Potash   iodide 150 

Stillingia 150 

CONJUNCTIVITIS    (Ulcera- 

tive)         151 

Eucalyptus 151 

CONSTIPATION      -     -    -     -  106 

Bryonia 107 

Cold   water 107 

Hydrastis 107 

Kali    mur. 107 

Natrium  muriate      ....  107 

Nux  vomica 107 

Wheat   bran 107 

CONVULSIONS   (Puerperal)  188 

Eupatorium   purp.    ....  189 

Glonoin 189 

Veratrum   viride      ....  18<4 

Viburnum   pruni.      ....  188 

CORNEA  (Ulceration  of  the)  152 

Belladonna      ......  152 

Calcium  sulphide     ....  152 

Corydalis 153 

Potash    bi-chromate      -     -     -  153 

Silver  nitrate 153 


CORNEAL   OPACITIES       -  154 

Calcarea  flouride     ....  154 

Cannabis   sativa       ....  154 

Potash  bi-chromate      ...  154 

Resorcin 154 


CORYZA •     -  47 

Aconite 47 

Euphrasia  officinalis    -     -     -  47 

Kali   mur. 47 

Natrium  mur. 47 


PAGB 

CRUSTEA  LACTEA    -    -    -    205 

Arctium  lappa 205 

Viola   tricolor 205 

CYSTITIS 123 

Aconite 123 

Camphor 123 

Cantharis 123 

Equisetum 123 

Gelsemium 123 

Niter  dulce  spts.     ....  123 

Nux  vomica 123 

CYSTITIS    (Chronic)    -    -    -  125 

Chimaphila  umbelata  -     -     -  125 

Cuprum  arsenicum       -     -     -  125 

Gelsemin 125 

Hamamelin 125 

Populin 125 

Terebinthina        125 

DEAFNESS 158 

Ether 158 

Ferrum  piericum     ....  159 

Kali  mur. 159 

Kali   phos. 159 

Phosphorus     ......  159 

Silicea 159 

Strychnia  sulph.       ....  159 

DELIRIUM  TREMENS  -    -  38 

Beef  tea  with  capsicum  •     •  38 

Bromidia 38 

Canabis  indica    .....  38 

Hyoscyamus 38 

Kali   phos. 39 

Kali  mur.        39 

DIABETES 127 

Chionanthus 128 

Lactic  acid     - 127 

Lycopus  virg.     •     •    .•     •     -  128 

Phosphoric   acid       ....  128 

Syzygeum   jambol   ....  128 

Uranium   nitrate      ....  128 

DIAPHRAGMITIS   ....      88 
Cactus  grand.     .....       88 

DIARRHEA 255 

Aloes 257 

Anise 257 


300 


Index 


PAGB 

Antimonium   crudum   -     -  256 

Camphor 256 

Capsicum 256 

Colocynth        256 

Cuprum  arsenicum  -     -     -     -  256 

Ginger        256,  257 

Henchera  americana    -     -     -  257 

Magnesia  carb. 257 

Opium 256 

Phosphoric  acid       ....  256 

Podophyllin 255 

Rhei  et  Potassa  Syr.  -     -     -  255 

Rhubarb 256.  257 

DIPSOMANIA 263 

Apocynum  cannabinum    -     -  263 

Strychnine  hypophosphite     -  264 

Strychnine  nitrate  -     -     -     -  264 

DROPSY 110 

Adonis        .......  Ill 

Apocynum  cannabinum    -     -  110 

Convallaria 110 

Cream    tartar 110 

Digitalis 110 

Elaterin Ill 

Jalap Ill 

Squills Ill 

Strychnine  sulph.    ....  Ill 


DIPHTHERIA  -  - 
Antitoxin  .... 
Apis  mel.  -  -  -  - 
Aurum  triphyllum  - 


63 
64 
65 
66 


Baptisia 65 

Eucalyptus 65 

Gelsemium 64 

Lachesis 66 

Phytolacca 64 

Potash   chlorate        ....  64 

Poultice  (slippery  elm)    -     •  64 

Quinine  sulph. 64 

Sulphurous  acid       ....  64 

DYSENTERY       100 

Baptisia 100 

DYSPEPSIA 93 

Alnus   rubra 94 

Alunin    -•---•-•  94 

Bismuth  sub-nitrate     ...  95 


PAGE 

Chelone  glabra 94 

Coffee 94 

Gentian  Comp.  Tr.       ...  95 

Lycopodium 94 

Nux   vomica 94,  95 

Pepsin   (pure) 95 

Robina  pseud. 94 

Tea  drinking 94 

DYSPNEA 87 

Adonis   vernalis        ....  87 

Crataegus 87 

Naja  tripudiant 87 

Quebracho       ......  §7 

ECZEMA 197 

Alnus   rubra   ------  199 

Bath   (soda  sulphate)       -     -  200 

Berberis   aquifolium     .     .     -  200 

Bismuth   nitrate       -     -     -     -  109 

Bovista 200 

Carbolic  acid 200 

Gentian 199 

Graphites 199 

Juniper    pomade       ....  200 

Lobelia  acetic  Tr.  ....  198 

Morphia  sulph. 200 

Rhus   tox 199 

Podophyllum        193 

Potash   acetate 198 

Rumex    crispus 199 

Staphisagria 200 

Taraxacum 199 


EDEMA  GLOTTIDIS 
Apis  mel.  .... 


ENDOCARDITIS 
Aconite  rad.  -  - 
Bonplandi  cereus 
Calcarea  flouride 
Cimicifuga  -  - 
Kali  mur.  -  - 
Spigelia  ... 
Veratrum  viride 


EPISTAXIS  -  -  - 
Ferri  phos.  ... 
Ferrutn  aceticum  - 
Geranium  maculatum 


55 
55 

80 

80 
80 
81 
80 
80 
80 
80 

51 
51 
51 
51 


Index, 


301 


PAGE 

EPILEPSY 182 

Ammonium  bromide    ...  183 

Artemisia  vulgans  -     ...  183 

Belladonna 183 

Calcarea  phos. 184 

Kali  mur. 184 

Lobelia  comp.  Tr.  ....  184 

Magnesia  phos. 184 

Natrium  sulph. 184 

Oenanthe  crocata    ....  183 

Pulsatilla 183 

Solanum  carolinense    ...  184 

Veratrum  viride       ....  183 


ERYSIPELAS  -  -  - 
Belladonna  -  -  -  - 
Calcium  iodo  bromide 
Hatnamelis  .  .  .  . 

Ice 

Poultice 

Quinine       ..... 
Rhus   tox   

ERYTHEMA  .  .  .  . 
Belladonna  .... 
Echinacea  .... 
Hamamelis  .... 
Rhus  veneata  -  -  - 


ENTERITIS 

Ferri  phos       ...... 

Kali  mur. 

Poultice   (flaxseed)       ... 

EXANTHEMATA     -     -    -     - 

Baptisia 

Charcoal -     - 

Echinacea        

Ferri   phos.     ...... 

Hydrochloric  acid  -     -     -     - 

Hyoscyamus 

Kali    mur.        ...... 

Kali    phos. 

Poultice   (slippery  elm,  flax- 
seed)        

EXOPHTHALMIC  GOITRE 
Fucus  vesiculosis     .... 

Iodine 

Lycopus  

Phytolacca 


223 
223 
225 
224 
224 
224 
223 
223 

195 
195 
196 
195 
19tl 

109 
109 
109 
109 

233 
234 
234 
234 
233 
234 
235 
233 
235 

234 

85 
80 
86 
86 


PAGE 

FEVER  (Bilious)    -  -  -  .  235 

Aconite 236 

Mustard  paste 237 

Nux  vomica 236 

FEVER  (Remittent)       -     -     -  236 

Gelsemium 236 

Quinine   arsenate     ....  236 

Rhus   tox 236 

FEVER    (Scarlet)       ---.  237 

Aconite  rad. 237 

Alianthus  glandulosa  -     •     -  238 

Ammonia  carb. 238 

Arum   triphyllum     ....  237 

Belladonna 237 

Echinacea  -     - 238 

Ferri   phos. 237 

Kali    mur.        237 

Phytolacca 238 

Potash   chlorate       ....  237 

Poultice   (slippery  elm)   -     -  237 

Zinc   sulphate     .....  237 

FEVER  (Typhoid)  -  ...  233 

Baptisia 234 

Charcoal 234 

Echinacea        ......  234 

Ferri    phos. 233 

Hydrochloric  acid    -     -         •  234 

Hyoscyamus 235 

Kali  mur. 233 

Kali   phos. 235 

Poultice    (slippery    elm,    flax- 
seed)       234 

FEVER   (Typhus)     -    -    -    -  235 

Baptisia 235 

Belladonna 236 

Echinacea        236 

Hydrochloric   acid        -     -     -  236 

Hyoscyamus 236 

FEVER  (Yellow)       .     -    -    -  243 

Aconite 243 

Belladonna 24.". 

Cadmium  sulph.       ....  244 

Camphor 243 

Crotalus  horridus  -  ...  244 

Ipecac 243 

Lime  sweat 243 


302 


Index 


PAGE 

GASTRALGIA 96 

Dioscorea   vil. 96 

Gaultheria,   oil  of    -     -     -     -  96 

Meliotus  alba 96 


GASTRIC  ULCER  -    -    -    • 
Argentium       ...... 

Natrum   phos.      .     .     .     -     . 

Potash  bi-chromate      -     -     • 
Uranium   nitrate      -     -     -     • 

GASTRITIS • 

Aconite • 

Bismuth  sub-nitrate     -     -     • 
Ice 

GASTRITIS   (Chronic)       - 
Argentum  nitricum      •     •     • 
Arsenic  (Fowler's  Sol.)   -     • 
Hydrastis  (Lloyd's  Liquid) 
Nux  vomica  ------ 

GLANDERS     • 

Echinacea        ...... 

Potash    bi-chromate      -     -  • 

Quinine • 

GLOSSITIS 

Aconite • 

GONORRHEA      .    .    .    .  . 

Cannabis  sativa       .     .     .  . 

Cubeba       

Gelsemium • 

Natrum  sulph.    -     -    -    -  • 

Nitre  dulce  spts.     .     .    .  . 

Sepia 


96 

97 

97 

96 

96 

95 

95 

95 

95 

95 

95 

9G 

96 

96 

225 

225 

225 

225 

93 

93 

137 

137 

137 

137 

137 

137 

137 


HANDS,  ARMS  AND  LEGS  163 

Actea  spicata 164 

Benzoic  acid  - 16J? 

Bovista 163 

Cactus  grand 163 

Calcarea  flouride     ...     -  164 

Calcarea    ost. 164 

Calendula 163 

Camphor l&i 

Carduus 167 

Causticum 366 

Chelidonium 167 

Cimicifuga -  165 

Cistus  canadensis    -     -     -     -  166 

Cocculus 164 


PAGE 

Colocynth        166 

Eclectic   wash 167 

Gaultheria,  oil  of     -     -     -  165 

Gelsemium       ......  105 

Guaphalium     ......  167 

Hamamelis      ....      166,  167 

Hyoscyamus  hydrobromate  -  168 

Jaborandi 165 

Kali  phos. 163 

Kalmia  latifolia 165 

Lathyrus   sativa       ....  166 

Lolium   temulentum     ...  164 

Magnesia  phos.  .....  163 

Manaca 165 

Mezerum 164 

Natrum   phos. 164 

Phytolacca 166 

Pilocarpine 163 

Potash    iodide 163 

Potassa   bromide      ....  163 

Pulsatilla 166 

Rhus   tox 164 

Silicea 168 

Stillingia 164 

Strychnia  sulph.       -     -      163,  168 

Symphitum 167 

Urtica  urens 165 

Viburum   pruni 165 

Wormwood,  oil  of  -     -     -     -  165 

Xanthoxyllin 168 


HAY  FEVER 
Alium  cepa 

Sabadilla     - 


71 
71 

71 


HEADACHE   (Congestive)     -  247 

Aconite 248 

Belladonna 247 

Gelsemium 248 

Glonoin 249 

Meliotus    alba 247 

Natrum  carb. 249 

Secale  cornutum      ....  248 

Usnea  barbata 249 

Veratrum  viride       ....  247 

HEADACHE  (from  eye  strain)  250 

Cimicifuga 251 

Onosmodium        .....  251 

Ruta  grav. 250 


Index 


303 


PAGE 

HEADACHE   (Nervous)    -     -  249 

Epiphegus 249 

HEADACHE  (Periodic)  -  -  251 

Bryonia 252 

Natrum  muriaticum     -     -     -  252 

Quinine       .......  252 

HEADACHE    (Sick)      -    -     -  251 

Cascara  cordial 251 

Charcoal 251 

Chi  onan  thus 251 

Epiphegus 251 

Niccolum 251 

HEART  (Dilatation)      -     -    -  82 

Collinsonia 83 

Craetegus 82 

Digitalis 82 

Ignatia 83 

Phaseolus  panus       ....  82 

HEART   (Fatty) 83 

Phytoline 83 

Strychnine  sulph.    -     -     -     -  83 

Vanadium        83 

HEART   (Hypertrophy)      -     -  81 

Arnica 82 

Cactus    grandiflorus      -     -     -  82 

Colchicum 82 

Collinsonia 82 

Lycopus  virg. 82 

Veratrum  viride       ....  81 

HEART  (Palpitation)  -  -  84,  88 

China 88 

Cimicifuga 85 

Gelsemium 85 

Kali  phos. 88 

Moschus 88 

Phosphoric  acid  ....  88 

Pulsatilla 85 

HEART  (Remedy)  ....  83 

Ammonia  arom.  spts.  -  -  83 

Castor 83 

Ether  sulph. 83 

Opium 83 

Turpentine  spts.  ....  83 

HEART  (Valvular  Disease)  -  86 

Calcarea  flouride  ....  86 


HEART   (Weak) 

Caffeine      ....... 

Digitalis . 

Ferrum       ....... 

Glonoin       ....... 

Phaseolus  nanus      -     -     -     • 

HEMORRHOIDS      -    -    -    - 

Aesculus  hippo 

Black  molasses  -     -     -     -     - 

Collinsonia 

Conium . 

Hamamelis 

Morphia 

Tannic  acid 

HEMIPLEGIA 

Avena  sativa 

Capsicum,   oil   of     -     -     -     - 

Causticum 

I/achesis     ....... 

Originum,   oil   of     -     -     -     - 

Stillingia,  oil  of  •  -  -  - 
Strychnine  sulph.  -  -  -  - 

Xanthoxylum 

Zinc  phosphide 

HEMORRHAGE    (Intestinal) 

Charcoal 

Ipecac  

HEPATITIS 

Bryonia 

Ferri   phos. 

Hepar  sulph. 

Paste  (mustard)      -     -     -     - 

Natrum   sulph. 

Veratrum  viride  .  .  .  . 
HERPES  (Facial)  -  -  -  - 

Natrium  muriaticum    ... 

HERPES  ZOSTER-  -  -  • 
Bath  (soda  sulphate)  -  -  - 

Corn  starch 

Ranunculus  bulbosas  •  202, 

Rhus  tox • 

Rumex  crispus  comp.  syr.  - 
Tar  plaster  comp.  .... 

HICCOUGH 

Caulophyllum 

Magnesia  phos. 


PAGB 
86 
gg 

86 


86 

101 
101 
102 
102 
102 
102 
102 
102 

187 

187 
188 
187 
187 
188 
188 
187 
187 
188 

107 
107 
107 
115 
115 
115 
115 
115 
115 
115 
202 
202 
202 
202 
203 
203 
203 
203 
203 
88 
89 
88 


304 


Index 


Morphia  sulph.   -     -     - 
Sugar  and  vinegar 

HAEMATURIA  -  -  • 
Ferri  phos.  -  ... 
Lycopus  virg.  -  - 


PAGE 
89 


127 
127 
127 
Terebinthina 127 


HYDROPHOBIA 
Caustic  potash  - 
Cypripedium  -  - 
Echinacea  -  •  - 
Lime  ... 

Lobelia  -  -  - 
Quinine  sulph.  - 
Sceutellaria  -  - 


HYDROCELE 
Apis  mel.  •  • 
Ergot  -  -  • 


32 
32 
33 
32 
32 
33 
33 
33 

140 
141 

141 


HYDROPERICARDIUM       -  76 

Ammonia  arom.  spts.  -     -     -  79 

Apis   mel. 77 

Apocynum  cannabinum    -     -  77 

Convallaria   maj.      ....  77 

Capsicum    -------  79 

Cream  tartar 77,  79 

Digitalis 76 

Helonias 78 

Iron       78 

Leptandrin      ---..-  79 

Morphine 78 

Podophyllin 79 

HYSTERIA 179 

Ammonia  valerianate  -     -     -  179 

Asafoetida 180 

Composition  powder    -     -     -  179 

Cypripedium        -     ....  180 

Ignatia 181 

Lobelia 180 

Moschus     -.-...-  181 

Pothos  foetida 181 

Valerian 180 

ICHTHYOSIS 202 

Arsenic   iodide 202 

Bath  (soda  sulphate)  -     -     -  202 

Clematis  erecta 202 


PAGE 

Thuja 202 

Thyroidin         202 

IMPOTENCY 258 

Agnus  castus 260 

Avena   sativa 259 

Kali   phos. 259 

Lycopodium    ......  260 

Phosphoric   acid    (dil.)      -     -  259 

Picric   acid 260 

Saw  palmetto 260 

Selenium 260 

Strychnine  arseniate    -     -     -  259 

IRITIS 151 

Atrophia  sulph.  -----  152 

Jaborandi 151 

JAUNDICE 118 

Arsenic   (Fowler's   Solution)  119 

Calisaya 119 

Cheledonium        US 

China 118 

Chionanthus 118 

Hydrastis 119 

Myrica  cerifera 118 

KERITITIS 153 

Apis  mel. -  153 

Aurum  metallicum  -     -     -     -  154 

Hepar  sulph. 154 

Kali  mur. 153 

KIDNEY   COMPLAINT   -     -  130 

Benzoic  acid  ------  130 

Berberis   vulgaris     -     -     -     -  130 

Terebinthina        130 

LA  GRIPPE 47 

Bellandonna 47 

Eupatorium   purp.   ....  48 

Strychnia  sulph.       -     -     -     -  48 

LARYNGITIS 53 

Aconite       .--.---  53 

Eucalyptus 53 

Jaborandi   -------  53 

Lobelia 54 

Onion   poultice   -----  53 

Sanguinaria 54 

Stillingia  comp.  Tr.     -    -    -  54 


Index 


305 


LARYNGITIS  (Chronic)  -    - 

PAGE 

54 

i 

Boletus   lands     ..... 

>AGB 

119 

Arum  triphyllum     .... 

54 

Capsicum    ....... 

119 

Causticum       

55 

Gelsemium      ...... 

110 

Lachesis      

55 

Orange  Syr.   

120 

LEUCOCYTHEMIA     -    -    - 

223 

Prickly  ash  berries       -     -     . 

119 

Aranea   diadema      -     -     -     - 

223 

Prusiate  iron       

119 

Calcarea  carb.    

223 

Quinine  arseniate    .... 

119 

Menispermin  

223 

Quinine  sulph.    ...... 

119 

Picric   acid     

223 

Serpentaria      

119 

Thuja     

223 

MANIA    

39 

LEUCORRHEA    

283 

Belladonna      41 

,  42 

Fagopyrum    esculentum    -     - 

283 

Cascara    sagrada      .... 

40 

Hamamelis      

283 

Cimicifuga       ...... 

42 

Kali  mur.  --.--.. 

283 

Emetic  (mustard  and  ipecac) 

40 

Secale  cornutum      .... 

283 

Hyoscyamus    40 

,  42 

Kali  phos.       

43 

LICHEN       

204 

Micajah's  uterine  wafers 

41 

Grindelia  robusta    -     ... 

204 

Potash   bromide       .... 

40 

Juglands  cinerea      .... 

205 

Stramonium    

4? 

Juglandin   

204 

Veratrum    album      .... 

43 

Quinine  sulph.    

204 

MANIA  (Suicidal)     .... 

43 

LIVER  (Cirrhosis  of  the)       - 

115 

Arsenicum   album    .... 

44 

Bryonia      

116 

Aurum   metallicum       -     -     - 

44 

Chionanthus    

115 

Lillium   tigrinum     .... 

44 

Euonymin       ...... 

115 

Ignatia        ....... 

43 

Nux  vomica  ...... 

116 

MEASLES    

238 

LIVER  (Enlargement  of  the) 

116 

Aconite       

238 

Carduus  marianus  -     ... 

116 

Asclepias    

240 

Chelidonium    

116 

Camphor    

240 

Chelone  glabra  

116 

Euphrasia        ...... 

239 

Ptelea  trifoliata       .... 

116 

Ferri  phos.         ..... 

239 

LOCOMOTOR  ATAXIA  -     . 

28 

Ipecac    

238 

Alumina      -     

29 

Kali  mur.  

239 

Argentum  nitricum      ... 

29 

Kali  phos.       

239 

Belladonna      

29 

MENINGITIS       

35 

Carbo   veg.      ...... 

29 

Ferrt   phos.      

S5 

Cannabis  indica       -     -     -     - 

29 

Helleborus   niger     .... 

35 

Electricity       

30 

Kali  mur.  -     -     

35 

Equisetum      

29 

Kali   phos.       

35 

Picric   acid      

29 

Silicea    ---     

29 

MENSES  (Dark  colored)  -     - 

281 

Secale    cornutum      .... 

29 

Crocus  sativa      ..... 

281 

Stramonium    ...... 

30 

Ustalago   maydis     .... 

281 

Zinc  phosphide   -     .... 

29 

MENSES  (Delayed)       -    -    - 

280 

Aconite       

280 

MALARIA  (Intermittent) 

118 

Polygonum   punctatum     -     • 

280 

Blue  powder  

119 

Pulsatilla    

280 

306 


Index 


PAGE 

MENSES   (Irregular)     -     -     -  280 

Senecio  aurens 280 

Trillium 281 

MENSES   (Painful)   -     -     -     -  281 

Dioscorea 282 

Gelsemium 281 

Magnesia  phosphate     -     -     -  282 

Veratrum   viride       ....  282 

Vivurnum  opulus     -     -     -     -  281 

Viburnum  pruni       ....  282 

MENSES  (Profuse)  -     -     -     -  280 

Sabina 281 


MENOPAUSE 291 

Apocynum       ......  291 

Belladonna 292 

China 292 

Cimicifuga 292 

Ergot 292 

Glonoin 292 

Ignatia 291 

Kali  carbonicum      -     -      292,  293 

Kali  phos. 291 

Sepia 291 

Veratrum  viride       ....  291 

Virburnum  Comp.   ....  291 

Zincum  metallicum      -     -     -  291 


PAGE 

Crataegus   oxycantha    -     -     -  81 

Iberis 81 

Kali  mur. 81 

Tar  plaster  comp.  -     ...  81 

MYOPIA 155 

Physostigma  venenosum  -     -  155 

NEURALGIA 177 

Aconitin 178 

Bryonia 178 

Cypripedium -  178 

Gelsemium 177 

Kalmia        177 

Magnesia  phos. 178 

Quinine  sulph. 178 

Sceutellaria 178 

Spigelia 178 

Zincum  valerianicum   ...  178 

NEURASTHENIA    -     -     -     -  181 

Avena  sativa 181 

Kali    phos. 182 


Phosphoric  acid 


182 


Picric   acid 182 


Silicea    - 
NEURITIS 


182 
177 


Aconite  rad. 177 


METRITIS       
Ferri  phos.     

285 
285 

cannaois  inaica       .... 
Hypericum      

iti 
177 

285 

NYMPHOMANIA     .... 

286 

Kali  mur.  

285 

Murex  purpurea      .... 

286 

Poultice    (hops    and    worm- 

wood)       

285 

OPHTHALMIA    

151 

MOUTH  (Ulcers  of  the)    -     - 
Potash  chloride  

93 
93 

Aconite       
Spigelia       

151 
151 

93 

ORCHITIS        

137 

Ammonium    muriate     -     -     - 

1H8 

MUCO  ENTERITIS     -    •    - 

106 

Clematis  erecta  

138 

Potash    bi-chromate      ... 

106 

Phytolacca      - 

138 

MYELITIS       

25 

Pulsatilla    

138 

Artemesia  abrotanum  -     -     - 

25 

OS   UTERI    (Congestion   of 

Hyoscyamus  hydrobromate  - 

25 

the)    

282 

Lathyrus   sativus     .... 

25 

Belladonna      

282 

Oxalic  acid     ...... 

25 

Sepia      

282 

Strychnia    

25 

OS  UTERI   (Displacement  of 

MYOCARDITIS   

81 

the)    

284 

Calcarea    fluoride     -     •     -     - 

81 

Lillium   tigrinum     -     -     -     - 

284 

Index 

307 

OS   UTERI    (Enlargement   of 

PAGE 

Lathyrus  sativus     -    -    .    . 

PAGE 

186 

the)    

284 

Oleander     

ISA 

Fraxinus   americanus  -     -     - 

285 

OS  UTERI  (Prolapsus  of  the) 
Helonias     -•--... 

284 

284 

PARESIS  (Oculo  motor)  -    - 
Causticum       

155 
155 

Sepia      

284 

Rhus  tox     

155 

OS  UTERI  (Ulceration  of  the) 
Belladonna      

283 

283 

PHEMPHIGUS     
Arsenic  (Fowler's  Sol.)  -     - 

203 

204 

Fowler's    Solution   .... 

283 

Berberis  aquifolium     -     -     . 

204 

Micajah's  uterine  wafers 

283 

Caltha   palustris       -     -     -     - 

203 

Rhus   tox   

203 

OTALGIA    

156 

Thuja     

203 

Black  pepper      

157 

Chamomilla     ------ 

156 

PERICARDITIS       -    .    -    - 

75 

Cocaine       ----... 

156 

Aconite       

75 

Ferri   phos.     ------ 

156 

Asclepias    --.--.. 

75 

Plantago  major  ----- 

156 

Bryonia      ------- 

75 

Poultice  (onion)      -     -     -     - 

156 

Cimicifuga       ---... 

76 

OTITIS    

157 

76 

Kali  mur.  -     -     

75 

Aconite       ------- 
Calcarea  sulph.   
Kali  mur.  

157 
157 
157 

Marsh  mallow  syr.       ... 
Phytolacca      ----.. 

76 
76 
76 

Pulsatilla    

157 

Poultice   (flaxseed)       -     -     - 

75 

OTORRHEA     

157 

Spigelia      

75 

Boracic  acid  

157 

Strychnine  sulph.    -     -     -     - 

76 

Eucalyptus      ------ 

157 

PERITONITIS     

104 

Kali  phos.       ------ 

157 

Aconite       

104 

Kali   sulph.     

157 

Poultice      (wormwood     and 

Silicea    

158 

hops)       ------. 

104 

OVARY  (Congestion  of  the)  - 

286 

PERITONITIS   (General)      - 

105 

Apis  mel.  

286 

Ferri   phos.     -----. 

106 

Lachesis     ------- 

286 

Kali  mur.  ------- 

100 

Podophyllin    

286 

PERITONITIS  (Puerperal)  - 

105 

PARALYSIS  AGITANS    -    - 

188 

Gelsemium       .-.-.- 

105 

Gelsemium       ------ 

188 

Poultice      (wormwood     and 

Hyoscinate  hydrobromas 

188 

hops)       

105 

Magnesia  phos.  -     -     -     -     - 

188 

PHARYNGITIS    

51 

PARALYSIS   (Facial)   -     -    - 

186 

Argentum   nitricum      ... 

52 

Aconite       

186 

Gelsemium      ------ 

52 

Causticum        

186 

Guaiacum  

52 

PARAPLEGIA      

Argentum   nitricum       -     -     - 
Conium  maculatum      -     -     - 

186 
186 
187 

Phytolacca      ------ 
Potash  chlorate  -     -     -     -     - 
Zinc  sulphate      -     -     -     -     - 

52 
62 

52 

Gelsemium       

187 

PITYRIASIS  RUBRA       -    - 

203 

Kali  phos.       -     

187 

203 

308 


Index 


PAGE 

PLEURISY  (Acute)      -     -     -  56 

Asclepias 56 

Bryonia 56 

Kali  mur. 57 

Libradol 57 

Paste   (ginger,   mustard   and 

capsicum)    - 57 

PLEURISY  (Chronic)  -    -     -  57 

Ammonium  carbonate       -     -  57 

Asclepias -     -  57 

Iodine 57 

Potash   acetate     -     -        -     -  57 

Quinine  sulph. 58 

Tar  plaster  comp.  -     -     -     -  58 

PNEUMONIA 59 

Asclepias 60 

Baptisia 61 

Bath  (Epsom  salts)     -     -     -  60 

Ipecac 60 

Kali  mur. 60,  61 

Poultice    (onion)      -     -     -     -  60 

Quinine  sulph.    -----  60 

Strychnine  sulph.    -     -     -     -  60 

Tartar  emetic 61 

Veratrum 59 

Whiskey 61 


PNEUMONIA    (Typhoid) 
Baptisia      --.-.. 

Quinine 

Whiskey 


POLYPUS   (Nasal)   -     - 
Sanguinaria     -     -     -     - 


61 
61 
61 
61 

51 
52 


PRURIGO 207 

Bath  (soda  sulphate)  -     -     -  207 

Dolichos   puriens     -     -     -     -  207 

Lobelia 207 

Rumex  comp.  syr.  ....  207 

PRACTICAL   DIAGNOSIS   -  17 

Characteristics  of  the  eye     -  19 

Characteristics  of  the  pulse  -  18 

Characteristics  of  the  tongue  19 

PREGNANT  WOMAN      -     -  267 

Arnica 271 

Aesculus  hippo 270 

Black   molasses 270 


PAGE 

Camphor   bromide  ...     -     271 

Cascara  cordial 270 

Cererium    oxalate     -     -     -     -     270 

Chalk 270 

Chamomilla     ...     -      271,  274 
Cimicifuga       ....      269,  274 

Cinnamon 273 

Digitalis 270,  271 

Elaterium 272 

Eupatorium   purp.    ....    2G9 

Ferrum 272 

Gelsemium 275 

Helonias 272 

Ingluvin 270 

Jaborandi 272,  274 

Kali  phos. 274 

Lactopeptine  EHx.  -    -     -     -    272 

Lime   phosphate       ....     270 

Macrotin    .......     271 

Method  of  turning       -     -     .     275 
Mitchella  Comp.  Tr.    -     -     -     272 
Michella  repens       ....     269 

Nux  vomica   ------     274 

Peptenzyme 272 

Sarsaparilla     ----.-     269 

Soda  bromide      -----     271 

Staphisagria    ------     271 

Sulphuric  acid    -----    273 

Turpentine,  oil   of  -     -     -     -     273 

Veratrum  viride       -     -     -     -     271 

Viburnum   comp.      -     -     -     -     269 

Viburnum   opulus    -     -     -     -     271 

Yolk  of  egg  and  glycerine  -     270 

PRICKLY    HEAT     -    -     -     -    208 

Borax 208 

Carbolic  acid 208 

PROCTALGIA 100 

Nitric   acid 100 

PROCTITIS 100 

Collinsonia 100 

Gelsemium       ......     100 

PROSTATITIS  (Acute)  -  -  126 
Ammonia  muriate  -  -  -  -  126 
Flaxseed  tea 126 


Index 


309 


PAGE 

Gelsemium 126 

Staphisagria 126 

PROSTATITIS  (Chronic)       -  126 

Aesculus  hippo 127 

Sabal   serrulata 127 

Selenium 127 

PSORIASIS 201 

Bath  (soda  sulphate)  -     -     -  202 

Berberis  aquifolia    -     -     -     -  201 

Burdock  seeds 201 

I,appa  seeds 201 

Rumex  crispus 201 

Soft  soap 202 

Tar 202 

Thyroidin 201 

Wheat   bran 202 

PUBERTY 279 

Caulophyllum 280 

Ferrum 280 

Leontin 280 

Sanguinaria 280 

PURPURA 222 

Ergotin 222 

Hamamelis      ......  222 

Lachesis 222 

REMEDIES  FOR  THE  FEET  171 

Agaricus  musca       ....  172 

Alumina 172 

Ammonia   muriate  ....  171 

Antimonium   crudum   ...  171 

Apocynin    -     -  ' 172 

Belladonna 172 

Cajeput,  oil  of 172 

Calcarea  carb. 172 

Calcarea  phos. 172 

Chelidonium 174 

Cuprum 174 

Ferri   chloride VI?, 

Gaultheria,  oil  of     -     -     -     -  171 

Graphites 174 

Hyoscyamus 173 

Ignatia        172 

Ledum  palustre  -     -     -      171,  174 

Picric  acid      ......  173 

Potash  chlorate 172 


PAGE 

Secale   cornutum     ....  174 

Sepia 173 

Silicea    ........  172 

Sulphur 171,  172 

Veratrum    viride       ....  173 

Zincum  metallicum       ...  172 

RETINITIS 153 

Belladonna 153 

Ferri  phos. 153 

Kali  mur. 153 

Picric   acid 153 

Sodium  salicylate    -     ...  153 

RHEUMATISM 227 

Ammonia  spts. '2-9 

Berberis   vulgaris    ....  228 

Bryonia 226 

Camphor 229 

Capsicum 229 

Cascara  sagrada       ....  228 

Cimicifuga       ....      228,  22f» 

Colchicine       ......  227 

Colchicum 227 

Gelsemium       ......  228 

Guiacum 229 

Holland  gin 229 

Liniment  (collodiom,  iodine, 

aqua  ammonia)    ....  2'28 

Opium 229 

Origanon,  oil  of 229 

Phytolacca  berries  ....  229 

Rhododendron 228 

Rhus   tox 227 

Salicylicum    acidum      •     -     -  228 

Sassafras,   oil   of      ....  229 


RHAGADES 
Graphites    - 


206 
206 


RING  WORM 206 

Acetic  acid   (glacial)   -     -     -     206 
Juglands  cinerea      ....     206 


SALT  RHEUM  - 
Hemlock  ground 
Rumex  crispus  - 
Soft  soap  -  -  - 


SCABIES  ,    -     - 

Sulphur  (sublimed) 


-  200 

-  201 

-  201 

-  201 

-  206 

-  206 


310 


Index 


1 

PAGE 

p 

AGE 

Tar,   oil   of     

206 

Cimicifuga            

241 

Veratrum   

206 

Cream  tartar       

240 

Ferri    phos.     - 

241 

SCALD  HEAD     

205 

Ginger    -------- 

241 

Poultice    (slippery    elm,    lo- 

Hydrastis      -     -                  241, 

24'J 

belia  and  phytolacca)   - 

205 

Quinine       ---.... 

241 

Salicylic   acid      ----- 

205 

Silicea    

205 

SPERMATORRHEA     -    -    - 

129 

Viola  tricolor      

205 

Dioscorea  

129 

SCLEROSIS  MULTIPLE     - 

34 

Eryngeum  aquaticum  -     -     - 
Gelsemin    

129 
129 

Hypericum      ------ 

34 

Kali  phos.       ...... 

129 

Lathyrus     ------- 

34 

Lupulin       ....... 

129 

SCROFULA      

215 

Strychnine       

129 

Alnus   rubra   

215 

Veratrum    ------- 

129 

Baptisia      

217 

SPINAL  IRRITATION    -    - 

28 

Cistus  canadensis    -     -     -     - 

215 

Belladonna      ------ 

23 

Ferri  phos.     

216 

Dialized  iron       

23 

Hepar  sulph.       

215 

Iodine    -     - 

23 

Iodine    -------- 
Lobelia   seed        

215 
216 

Quinine    sulph.    -     -     -     -     - 

23 

Myrica        

216 

SPINAL  MENINGITIS  -  - 

24 

Phytolacca       ------ 

216 

Belladonna      ------ 

24 

Rumin    

216 

Bryonia       ------- 

24 

Rumex   crispus   ----- 

216 

Veratrum   viride      -     -     -     - 

24 

Silicea    - 

216 

SPLEEN      (Enlargement      of 

Slippery   elm        

216 

the)    

117 

Thuja     -------- 

217 

Carduus  marianus  -     -     -     - 

117 

SCURVY      

Ferri    carbonas    -     -     -     -     - 

222 

222 

Polymnia  uvedalia  -     -     -     - 
Polymnia  ungent   (Lloyd's) 

117 

117 

Lemon    Syr.    ------ 

222 

SPLENITIS      

116 

Rhus   glabra   

222 

Ceanothus        

117 

SEPTICEMIA       

225 

STERILITY          

287 

Calcarea  sulph.   -     -     -     -     - 

225 

Aurum  muriaticum  nat.  -     - 

287 

Echafolta    

225 

Boracic  acid  

287 

Echinacea        - 

225 

Borax     

287 

Glonoin       -     - 

226 

287 

Kali    mur.        

225 

Saw    palmetto      

288 

Lachesis      

226 

Soda  bi-carbonate    -     -     -     - 

288 

Poultice      

226 

STOMATITIS       

93 

Quinine       - 

226 

Ferri   phos.     

93 

SMALLPOX      

240 

93 

Apis    mel.        ------ 

242 

STOMACH    (Catarrh)    -    -    - 

97 

Baptisia      

242 

Graphites         

97 

Bayberry   bark    -     -     -     -     - 

241 

Nux   vomica  ------ 

97 

Belladonna      

242 

STOMACH     (Hemorrhage    of 

Camphor    

242 

the)     

97 

Capsicum         ...... 

241 

Geranium  maculatum  -     -     - 

97 

311 


PAGE 

STY 154 

Calcarea  sulph. 154 

Pulsatilla 154 

SYPHILIS 141 

Aconite 143 

Berberis  aquifolia    -     ...  143 

Conium 143 

Corydalis 143 

Corydalin 142 

Iris  versicolar 142 

Nitric  acid 143 

Phytolacca 142 

Podophyllum 142 

Potash  bi-chromate      ...  143 

Potash  chlorate 143 

Quinine  sulph. 142 

Stillingia 142 

Zinc  sulphate 143 

TESTICLE  (Induration  of)   -  138 
Gold    and    Sodium    (double 

chloride) 139 

Mulein,  oil  of 138 

Poultice    (slippery    elm,    lo- 
belia, flaxseed)     -    -     -     -  138 
Rhododendron     -     -     -    -    -  138 

TETANUS 30 

Alcohol 30 

Augustura 30 

Capsicum,  oil  of       ....  30 

Caustic  potash 30 

Gelsemium       - 31 

Heat  to  the  spine    -     -     -     -  31 

Hypericum      ------  30 

Lime 30 

Lobelia,  oil  of 30 

Passaflora 31 

Poultice    (slippery    elm,    lo- 
belia and  flaxseed)  -     -     -  30 

Tobacco 31 

Vapor  bath 30 

TONSILITIS 52 

Aconite 52 

Baryta  carb. 53 

Caninum  lac. 52 

Kali  mur. 53 

Phytolacca 52 

Poultice  (slippery  elm)    -    -  52 


PAGE 

TONSILITIS  (Chronic)     -    -  53 

Baryta  iodide 53 

Calcarea  phos.     .....  53 

TUBERCULOSIS   PULMO- 
NARY      66 

Baptisia 70 

Bath  (Epsom  salts)     -     -     -  68 

Bismuth  sub-nitrate      ...  70 

Cell  Salts 69,  71 

Drosera       .--.-..  09 

Epsom  salts  compress      -     -  70 

Euonymus       ......  R9 

Ferri   phos. 70 

Kali  mur. 68 

Millefolium 70 

Myosotes  symphytifolia    -     -  60 

Picrotoxine 68,  70 

Ptelia  Trifoliata       ....  69 

Quinine  sulph.     -----  70 

Silicea 70 

Strychnine  sulph.     ...     -  68 

Verattum 6T- 

URINE,    Frequent    desire    to 

pass 125 

Epigea  repens 126 

Thlapsi  bursa 123 


URINE,  Suppression  of 
Apis  mel.  -  -  -  -  - 
Position  to  aid  -  -  - 
Poultice  (onion)  -  - 

URETHRA,  Stricture  - 
Chimaphila  umbellata  - 
Gelsemium  -  -  -  - 


URTICARIA      -     - 

Antimonium  crudum' 
Apis  ------ 

Corn  starch  -  -  - 
Soda  bi-carbonate  - 
Urtica  urens  -  -  - 


124 
124 
124 
124 

140 
140 
140 

J06 
196 
196 
196 
197 
196 


VACCINOSIS 208 

Thuja 208 

VAGINISMUS 285 

Cocaine   hydrochlorate      -     -  285 

Platinum 286 


312 


Index 


PAGB 
145 


VARICOCELE      -    •    - 

Hamamelis 145 

Pulsatilla  nigricans       -     -     -  145 

VERRUCA    (Warts)       -     -     -  207 

Chromic  acid 207 

Magnesia  sulph.       ....  207 

Nitric  acid  (dil.)     -    -     -     -  207 

Thuja 207 


VERTIGO 37 

Aconite 37 

Ammonium  iodatum     -     -     -  37 

Digitalis 38 

Ergot 37 

Iodine         3S 

Kali  phos. 37 

VOMITING 257 

Amygdalis  persica  ....  258 

Bismuth 257 

Clam  broth 258 


PAGE 

Colchicutn 258 

Ipecac 257 

Mustard  paste 258 

Sepia 258 

Veratrum  album       ....  258 


WHOOPING  COUGH 
Corallium  rubrum    - 
Drosera       .... 
Gas  house       .     .     .     . 
Ipecac    


-  62 

-  62 

-  62 

-  62 

-  62 
Naphthalium 62 

WORMS Ill 

Podophyllin Ill 

Santonin     .......  HI 

Sulphuric  acid  arom.  ...  112 

WRITER'S  CRAMP      -    .    -  188 

Conium  mac. 18S 

Magnesia  phos.    ....  188 

Natrum  phos. 188 


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